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Bytes and Being from Nischal HP

A humble attempt at sharing my thoughts around technology, philosophy and everything in between.

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From Tokens to Actions. Did Anyone Check?

A month ago I wrote that agents are just distributed systems. The post got shared around. People called. And every conversation exposed the same gap in my own thinking: I could describe the principles, but I could not show you what they looked like running.

Agents Are Just Distributed Systems. Fight Me.

Bytes and Being — Take 1: Agentic Systems

The Anatomy of a Prompt : A journey from Python to Silicon - Part 5 of 5 - Tensor Parallelism, NVLink, and Why Output Tokens Cost 6x More

Chapter 7: The scale, Context Crisis and KV Cache

The Anatomy of a Prompt : A journey from Python to Silicon - Part 4 of 5 - Flash Attention: The Trick That Made GPUs 4x Faster (And Why Python Can't Do It)

GPUs were bored, idle and the economics of serving billions of requests was poor. How did we get out of this?

The Anatomy of a Prompt : A journey from Python to Silicon - Part 3 of 5 - 16,000 Cores Waiting for Memory: The Physics of Forgetting

How are GPUs designed? Why can we not run Deep learning models on CPUs?

The Anatomy of a Prompt : A journey from Python to Silicon - Part 2 of 5

The Attention Tax: O(n²) and Why Context Windows Cost So Much

GIT for Thoughts: Version-Controlling a Multi-Agent Conversation—with a Human in the Room

Conversation is a codebase, building a thought repository

The Anatomy of a Prompt : A journey from Python to Silicon - Part 1 of 5

What happens when you type "Explain quantum physics like I am 5 years old" and press enter?