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a not-fully-complete list of things i've read starting summer 2025

august 8, 2025

I read about tree borrows and stacked borrows in rust. You can find the paper here. I need to talk to Barish about this some day.

october 24, 2025

Competitive analysis is really cool. I read this and I've realized that 6.1220 is surely one of the best classes of all time.

october 26, 2025

AI Safety day today; I read this and I started thinking about the Johnson-Lindestrauss Lemma. I think we can do a cool deep learning project on this.

october 27, 2025

Doing a little bit of performance engineering. This was a good overview of architecture and general ideas on what to do for Sm_80 platforms. I think this was also good, but was a lot of the same stuff. Good diagrams though. Also, they don't talk about morton swizzling and how XOR swizzling actually works.

I need to read about EVTs and this paper before I forget and dawdle on doing other silly stuff. One day I also need to get to the double bubble pipeline parallelism paper from Deepseek and figure out the backward pass of flash attention. I also need to try my hand at writing Pallas code. Please also remind me to ask Vijay about the algebraic transformations only requiring a left inverse for CuTe; that was really cool!