some links I liked
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
- The Case Against Work-Life Balance
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- The Future of Carbon Dioxide Direct
- Techno-Optimistic Media
- BRRR: An Introduction
- The Bitter Lesson
- Scaling Engineering Teams: Lessons from Google, Facebook and Netflix
- A Guide to Measuring Engineering Team Performance
- Atoms Are Cheap, Process Is Pricey
- You Are Probably Not Dumb
- When Tailwinds Vanish
- A Personal Map of ML Hardware Trade-offs
- The China Tech Canon
- writes.html
- Vertical Integrators
- YC Interview Questions
- An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
- Intro to Linear Algebra
- Checkpointing
- Transformer Inference Arithmetic
- Data Movement Is All You Need: A Case Study on Optimizing Transformers
- Transformer FLOPs
- FLOPs in LLM Training: The Ultimate Guide
- Understanding FLOPs, MFU, and Computational Efficiency in LLM Training: From Dense Transformers to MoE Architectures
- Cognitive Hygiene: Why You Need to Make Thinking Hard Again
- RLing Qwen to Paint with Code
- A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
- The 37 Implementation Details of Proximal Policy Optimization
- RL is Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
- How the Backpropagation Algorithm Works
- Employee Equity
- Neural Networks
- How Neural Networks Work
- Pmarchive
- Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI — Lex Fridman Podcast #333
- Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI — Lex Fridman Podcast #252
- Yes, You Should Understand Backprop
- How Deep Neural Networks Work
- AI Language Models & Transformers
- How Convolutional Neural Networks Work
- Why You Shouldn’t Join Y Combinator
- How to Do Great Work
- The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup
- Vertical Integrators, Part III
- How to Achieve More While Studying Less — Obsidian & Conceptual Notes
- The Boring Technology Behind a One-Person Business
- An Intuitive Guide to Convolution
- Default Alive or Default Dead?
- How to Write Complex Software
- Hitting a 7-Figure ARR Within Two Years by Focusing on Quality
- Strategy Letter V
- Lessons from Peter Thiel
- Amp It Up!
- How to Hire the Best People You’ve Ever Worked With
- The Goldilocks Zone
- In Defense of Strategy
- Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
- Lehman’s Laws of Software Evolution
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again