Example: documenting an upstream contribution end to end
A worked example of the article format used on this site — prose, a dataset, a script, an upstream contribution record, and an FAQ. Delete this once you have published your own.
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A public research and engineering notebook by Alfred Kolakkal. Long-form articles on AI research, utility tools, biology, physics, mathematics, finance, epistemics and more — each with the datasets, scripts and source contributions behind it.
A worked example of the article format used on this site — prose, a dataset, a script, an upstream contribution record, and an FAQ. Delete this once you have published your own.
2 min read
EGGROLL structures evolution-strategies perturbations as low-rank matrices, giving a 100x speedup for billion-parameter models and GRPO-competitive reasoning post-training.
Kimi's Attention Residuals paper replaces the fixed residual sum with softmax attention over layer outputs. The mechanism, the 1.4T-token test, and the caveats.
Dropbox moved 90%+ of user data off Amazon S3 onto its own Magic Pocket storage. What its engineering posts document — and what the '$75M saved' claim rests on.
The 'Go + HTMX beats React' debate rests on a Carson Gross essay and one case study. We checked what the sources document versus what one video extrapolates.
Modular shipped Mojo 1.0 after Qualcomm's acquisition. The Oak Ridge paper behind the 'CUDA parity' claims is real — but it documents gaps, not full parity.
Apple's Swift-based container tool and the CNCF-backed Podman project give enterprises free, documented alternatives to paid Docker Desktop licenses. What the primary sources actually say.
What JEPA actually is, per the papers: LeJEPA's theory-grounded objective and V-JEPA 2's video world model and robot planning, with real numbers.
A worked example of the article format used on this site — prose, a dataset, a script, an upstream contribution record, and an FAQ. Delete this once you have published your own.