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On Vibecoding vs Agentic Engineering
Don't merge code to production that you couldn't explain to someone else
Book reviews
Updates on books I've read, with reviews and ratings.
Notes for learning JAX
As a learning exercise, I recently implemented simple-jax-nn , a simple neural net for the MNIST dataset, written with JAX. This post is my notes on using JAX (as a PyTorch / NumPy user) from working through the JAX docs and a NN tutorial. Simple JAX neural net I managed to get it to use my MacBook’s GPU/Accelerator through the Metal support in jax-metal . It’s a little bit tricky ,…
A Master's Practice: On the Art of Debugging
This week, whilst troubleshooting video encoding discrepancies for a film, I was reminded of the immense wizard power of debugging: the art of systematically bisecting your way to the root cause of a problem, then devising the cleanest fix. This is an art that cannot be taught and which few professions lead you to learn. Even among those that do, such as computer programming, only the most…
Reflections on Vibecoding
A sorcerer's guide to wielding chaotic and powerful magicks.
Music Melee: a high-speed parkour FPS for making beautiful sounds
Embracing the exponentials and vibecoding an entire 3D game in a few days with Aider, o3-mini, and Claude 3.7 sonnet.
Diffusion is autoregression in the frequency domain
Notes on the interconnection of generative AI's two leading paradims.
DevLog: orbital mechanics game in your browser
The development stories and roadmap for Orbital, my physics-based 3D simulator for realistic orbital maneuvers that runs in your browser with WebGL and Three.js.
8 bits of advice to flourish at the Recurse Center
A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world's best programming retreat.
Return Recurse.Gianluca
How I spent my 12 weeks at the Recurse Center annihilating my skill issues, shipping projects, and having fun.
Salvador DALL-E: Falling for Svelte and serverless shennanigans
How I learned Svelte and outsmarted Vercel to make a delightful frontend to OpenAI's DALL-E ... just for my mom.
Streams of beautiful riches
Enter richify.py: a real-time Markdown rendering tool that supports streaming input. Built with Rich and shipped effortlessly with uv.
What I made at the Recurse Center
Links to the projects, games, blog posts, and tools I shipped in my 12 weeks at RC.
Never graduate, revisiting RL, and orbital mechanics | Weeknotes
Week 44 of 2024. Week 12 of RC.
The universe is a big and numerically-unstable video game | Weeknotes
Week 43 of 2024. Week 11 of RC.
Cargo build and SpaceX-inspired graphics | Weeknotes
Week 42 of 2024. Week 10 of RC.
Gigabucks, burning my Mac's GPU, and Karpathy's lament | Weeknotes
Week 41 of 2024
DevLog: llmpossible
Building a command-line LLM on Apple Silicon for RC's 'Impossible Stuff Day'
Shader art, links, and assorted ponderings | Weeknotes
Week 40 of 2024
Second half of RC, falling leaves, and turning off the copilot | Weeknotes
Week 39 of 2024
Continuing at RC, a new game, and epic links | Weeknotes
Week 38 of 2024
RC Weeknotes 05
Move fast and make games.
What OpenAI's o1 really means
The AGI is dead. Long live the AGI.
AImong Us: a reverse Turing Test game
Can you outwit a gang of LLMs?
Make games people play
What Paul Graham doesn't tell you about delighting 7 year olds.
RC Weeknotes 04
Now we're cookin' with gas!
RC Weeknotes 03
Rustling up some skills and making addictive games in week 3 at the Recurse Center.
RC Weeknotes 02
Projects and flaming hot takes from my second week at the Recurse Center.
RC Weeknotes 01
Notes from my first week of Recurse or: How I learned to stop nerdsniping and love Rust.
Recurse.init
I've joined the Recurse Center (RC) for the Fall 1 '24 batch.
Raytracing from scratch in pure JS
A dynamic realtime raytracer in pure JavaScript you can run in your browser.
Biology from the bottom up
Initial thoughts on transforming bioengineering into software engineering.
Projects
Gianluca Truda’s Projects
TableDiffusion
The first differentially-private generative model for tabular data.
FOMO: LLM embeddings to keep up with AI
An open source newsreader app I built using LLM embeddings to semantically prioritise arXiv and Github updates.
Watch and learn
Multimodal AI for laboratory protocols and automation.
Yesterday's cutting edge is today's table stakes
Yesterday’s SOTA is today’s API wrapper.
Building PorePatrol LLM at the Anthropic Hackathon
A multimodal health LLM with LLaVA and Claude. Anthropic Hackathon 2023.
Optimising cost, quality, latency
The trifecta of generative AI.
The blueprint of agency
Why some sail and others drift.
Learning quant. trading with ML on Numerai
The hardest data science tournament in the world, for fun and profit.
Generative models for synthesising private datasets
My MSc thesis and what it aims to do for biomedical science.
Quantified Sleep
Machine learning techniques for observational n-of-1 studies.
Reviewing my 2020 predictions
How I almost outsmarted 3 pro forecasters using Bayes rule.
Gianluca's Predictions for 2020
Trying to out-forecast Vox in 2020. What could go wrong?
My older projects
A selection of my older projects (pre ~2019) transferred from an old website for posterity.
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