Writing archive. 4 posts.
(WIP) ML System Design by Valerii Babushkin and Arseny Kravchenko.
Is this the best system design book?
What OpenAI's Parameter Golf Challenge Taught Me
Lessons from working around OpenAI's Parameter Golf challenge: tight artifact limits, small-model tradeoffs, and why negative results can be more valuable than optimistic ideas.
Running Karpathy's Autoresearch on a Mac
What I learned from adapting Karpathy's autoresearch idea to Apple Silicon so agent-driven LLM experiments can run locally instead of only on large GPU servers.
PTQ-AttnDM, Explained Simply
A shorter, clearer version of my dissertation on post-training quantisation for diffusion models, with a visual walkthrough of the method.