What I'm thinking about

This page serves as a snapshot of ideas, questions and curiosities currently orbiting my mental space. Some ideas will develop into essays and others will remain just that, snapshots. Check out the now movement, the inspiration for this page.

Currently reading

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
  • Algorithms to Live By — Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  • Death's End - Cixin Liu

The village

A friend once asked me to write a poem based on the picture below, but I am no poet. The request did, however, encourage me to reflect more on my village experiences and this post will serve as a reminder to actually write something. After all, this picture is one of my favourites: it captures a mundane village experience, but everytime I look at, it feels like there is story.

People gathered in a thatched hut at night, lit by a central light

Matrix Multiplication Kernels

For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on this github issue, and I would like to write about it. My goal is to be able to describe the problem and explain it's solution such that a non-technical audience can appreciate the pains to which software engineers go through to make sure applications run fast. My descriptions and explanations will be limited to the concepts involved so for those interested in the actual solution and technicalities you can checkout this PR.

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