vLLM
I'm doing the DeepLearning.ai + RedHat vLLM course. Here's a dump of some of my handwritten notes (from the ReMarkable 2).
Suhas Guruprasad
Hi, I'm Suhas Guruprasad. I'm currently building my own startup and also working on some art projects. In the recent past, I was Head of Engineering at Z...
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The Age of Faith
We are exiting the age of reason and reentering the age of faith. In 1651, in the aftermath of a century of religious war, Thomas Hobbes set out to end the age of faith. Leviathan would swap the quarrelsome authority of priests and prophets for a single secular sovereign. It did this by recasting the human being as a piece of machinery. Man became matter in motion. The commonwealth became an…
How do mathematicians reach consensus?
My bubble and I have been reading Tanya Klowden and Terry Tao's new state-of-the-union style philosophy paper on AI, Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI . I should probably write a post about it sometime. In that paper, Tanya and Terry mention this other paper, Roy Wagner's "Mathematical consensus: a research program". I looked it up. It is open access on Springer . I was a bit…
Leibniz and Dvaita
This paper argues that several of the most persistent internal difficulties in Leibniz's mature metaphysics, the tension between the complete individual concept and contingency, the underspecified relationship between monadic autonomy and divine sustenance, the explanatory structure of pre-established harmony, and the contested status of inter-monadic coordination, receive sharper diagnosis and,…
Buddhism and Dvaita
This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, based on Dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Dvaita, or dualism, treated allegoricaly, posits a real ontological distinction between two orders of existence: the dependent individual self (analogous to ātman in its relational, non-substantivist sense)…
Advent of code 2025
Day 1 part 1 p = 50 puts $< . count { | i | p = ( p + ( i [ 0 ] == ?R ? 1 : - 1 ) * i [ 1 ..]. to_i ) % 100 p . zero? } Day 1 part 2 p = 50 puts $< . sum { | i | r = i [ 1 ..]. to_i d = i [ 0 ] == ?R ? 1 : - 1 c = ( r + p * d % 100 ) / 100 p = ( p + d * r ) % 100 c } Day 2 part 1 puts $< . read . split ( ',' ) . sum { | r | a , b = r . split ( '-' ) . map ( & :to_i ) ( a .. b ) . sum { | n | n .…
Against vibe coding
This is a curated bunch of recent internets blog-sphere writing against vibe coding. Most of them made it to HN front page or Lobsters at some point and I just collected them in my bookmarks because I simply thought it would be good to collect such articles and no other reason. The links are in descending order of publish date (most recent first). Btw, this post does not mean that I'm personally…
There are infinite isms
If not neocapitalism, then what? Let F = { f 1 , f 2 , f 3 , … } be a countable or perhaps larger set of atomic features; yes/no statements such as: f 1 : "private property is protected" f 2 : "banks may lend at interest" f 3 : "the state plans heavy industry" So that each ideology can flip those switches on or off. We can then define an ism as a subset I ⊆ F purely based on the membership of…
iOS programming patterns with Prof Anya
I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 to write me a fun textbook-novella that simulates a graduate-level classroom learning modern Swift/iOS design patterns. This style is inspired by the book Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures , which follows a classroom where a professor interacts with students. Might as well ask AI to write me something in that style; but on advanced iOS programming…
The Ultimate ML Model Training Environment
Presenting the ultimate interactive analog Deep Learning model training and exploration environment, where you can control every parameter like batch size, learning rate, alphas, betas, decays and what-custom-metric-you-want by just the turn of a physical knob, with immediate visual experimentation feedback, graphs, and curves! Image taken from unsplash .