My grab bag of various diversions/essays mostly about machine learning and software engineering, but some other topics too.
2025-04 - Procedural Textures with Hash Functions
2024-10 - Benchmarking std::{string, string_view, reference_wrapper}
2024-04 - A transformer walk-through, with Gemma
2023-03 - Metaphor thinking in deep learning
2022-01 - Rasterized ray tracing of sound in Javascript
2021-11 - Autodiff from scratch
2021-10 - How to train your classifier - an introduction to deep learning objectives
2021-09 - My phone case, the hidden state of an RNN
2020-03 - Write code for humans, design data for machines [part 1] [part 2]
2019-09 - Finding unique items - hash vs sort? [part 1] [part 2]
2024-02 - One {what} one vote