Is talent a blessing or a trap? An analysis of how talent conditioned by short reward cycles sabotages long-term effort — and a look beneath what we call grit, at the two engines underneath: taste and lack.
Artificial Life and General System Theory
As an undergrad I opened ‘General System Theory’ expecting the ultimate design principle, and found biology instead. Half a century ago Bertalanffy said life is not matter but organization — and Lenia proves it on a computer.
Personal Information You Can Extract From a Genome
The Y chromosome and the surname are both inherited down the paternal line. That single fact was enough to recover real identities from ‘anonymous’ genomes, as shown in this 2013 Science paper.
A ReLU Network Is One Giant Piecewise-Affine Function
A network with ReLU activations secretly carves input space into polytope pieces and, on each piece, collapses into exactly one affine map. This post builds that view up from a single neuron to interactive demos.
Shrinking Models by Sharing Weights — K-Means-based Quantization
Group a neural network’s weights into a few representative values with K-Means, and you can shrink the model several-fold with almost no accuracy loss. We explore it with an interactive widget where you watch the clusters converge and the storage shrink in real time. (Deep Compression, Han et al. 2016)
Integer-Arithmetic-Only Neural Network Inference — Linear Quantization
Beyond storing weights as integers — running the multiplications and additions entirely in integer arithmetic at inference. We connect reals and integers with the affine map r = S(q − Z), and explore it with a widget where you change the scale and zero point and watch the quantization error. (Jacob et al. 2018, the basis of TFLite integer quantization)
Data Types in the Deep Learning Era
INT8, FP16, BF16, FP8, FP4 — what do the data types you keep seeing in deep learning actually mean, and how do bits turn into numbers? We take them apart one by one, with widgets where clicking a bit updates the formula and value in real time.
Setting Up Korean IME (kime) on AWS DCV
How I fixed the issue where kime Korean IME only types one character before reverting to English on AWS DCV remote desktop.
Shooting Dead Enemies: Why Academia Keeps Fighting Zombie Debates
Why we keep resurrecting settled debates, and the irony of this very essay doing the same
runpod-log — A CLI Log Viewer for RunPod
A CLI tool to fetch and monitor logs from RunPod GPU Pods in real-time.