Data Compression Explained: A Visual Guide to the Whole Book
An illustrated whole-book study guide to Matt Mahoney's Data Compression Explained, covering information theory, benchmarks, coding, modeling, transforms, and lossy media compression.
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This is my personal website, where I keep the code notes, implementation details, and technical ideas I work through outside normal project work.
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Iran-USA War, Told Through Tweets (2026)
A polished, personal blog-style archive of the 2026 Iran-USA war as it appeared through X posts: the first strikes, Hormuz, the ceasefires, the memorandum, and the June 20 argument over what peace now means.
How LLMs Actually Work: A Friendly Map for Humans
A plain-English, visual guide to tokenization, embeddings, attention, transformer layers, and next-token prediction, with optional technical notes and tiny code examples.
The 2026 AI Landscape: A Hacker's Deep Dive 🤖
Everything you need to understand the current AI moment, from transformers to agents, RAG pipelines to MCP, and every buzzword in between.
API pagination: cursor vs offset
When to use cursor pagination and how to implement it safely.
TLS in plain English
What happens during a TLS handshake, without the math.
Docker layers: 6 rules for smaller images
A tiny checklist to cut build time and image size.