Writing

notes, essays, and lab logs

updated jun 2026

  1. jun 2026 On reproducing GPT-2 from scratch what I learned by building it instead of importing it
  2. jun 2026 Why I read Karpathy code line by line a slow study in deliberate practice
  3. may 2026 Lessons from shipping an AI agent production RAG, in the trenches
  4. may 2026 Distributed training notes: DDP, NCCL, and the bf16 question a working set of footnotes
  5. apr 2026 What competitive programming taught me about systems design patterns underneath patterns