Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine.
An extra long devlog video this week as I filmed every day for the first 12 days of December.
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A beautiful solution to the inscribed rectangle problem.
Playlist with more neat proofs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPSKntUcMArGheySM4gL7wS
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Previously, I discussed the value proposition of torch.compile. While doing so, I observed a number of downsides (long compile time, complicated operational model, lack of packaging) that were intrinsic to torch.compile's API contract, which emphasized being …
A few months ago I saw a talk on buildit, https://buildit.so/ a really neat project that achieves staged metaprogramming as a C++ library. I love the central tenets of being in a mainstream language and not requiring a modified compiler. Right on, brother. One…
when i got tenure earlier, i thought that would change how i work and live. it was true, but it wasn’t because of tenure but because of my thyroid cancer (see https://kyunghyuncho.me/sharing-some-good-news-and-some-bad-news/ if you’re curious.) when i was prom…
This past week, I came across the dataset curated by the Polo Club of Data Science at Georgia Tech. They scraped over 14 million image-prompt pairs collecte...
Introduction With holiday season in full swing, people may be more enticed to give to charity. However, there is a question of how to optimize your charitable donations. Specifically, I would like to optimize charitable donations for maximum impact. It seems t…
I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache 2.0 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on …
Idempotence is the basis of resilient distributed systems. This blog post explores a common solution for idempotent database inserts and its flaws and proposes an improved version.