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A Journey Into Pure Mathematics
I spent years treating math as a toolkit for AI research. Then a conversation with old friends sent me down a rabbit hole that turned out to be one of the most rewarding intellectual journeys I've had.
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Optimizing PyTorch Data Pipelines: From Bottlenecks to 39× Speedups
I went to revisit the PyTorch training loop, and ended up chasing a bottleneck that had nothing to do with the model.
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So You Want Low-Latency Object Detection
How a 3-second lag taught me everything I didn't know about real-time video pipelines.