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’25’26
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17 from 3 May 2025 to 18 Jun 2025
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now and then
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2025 17

  1. Basic facts about GPUs
  2. Basic idea behind flash attention (V1)
  3. Using min cut to determine activation recomputation strategy
  4. Linear layouts, triton, and linear algebra over F_2
  5. Modded-NanoGPT Walkthrough II: Muon Optimizer, Model Architecture, and Parallelism
  6. Is AlphaEvolve problem B.1 hard?
  7. Modded-NanoGPT Walkthrough I: initial setup, compiler config, and custom FP8 operations
  8. DeepSeek-Prover-V2 overview
  9. Getting the hang of policy gradients by reframing optimization as RL
  10. All roads lead to likelihood: the value of reinforcement learning in fine-tuning
  11. Basic facts about policy gradients
  12. Adaptive data analysis via subsampling
  13. The ladder mechanism for ml competitions
  14. Weak baselines
  15. Multi head, multi query, and grouped query attention
  16. What is constitutional AI?
  17. What is kv cache?