Bloom filters, and when a probabilistic set is the right call
Trade a little certainty for a lot of memory — the math is friendlier than it looks.
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Reading list — August 2026
A few things that crossed my desk this month.
Quantization notes: int8, fp8 and what you actually lose
Where the bits go, why outliers ruin everything, and the per-channel trick that saves them.
Reading list — July 2026
A few things that crossed my desk this month.
Data-parallel training: gradient bucketing and overlap
Why DDP feels like magic until you look at the allreduce schedule.
Reading notes: QUIC, 0-RTT and why HTTP/3 is UDP
Moving HTTP onto UDP was not insane — head-of-line blocking is the reason.
A minimal, reproducible Docker setup for ML experiments
Pin everything, mount data, never bake it. The boring setup that stopped me losing runs.
KV cache, and why LLM inference is memory-bound
The cache that makes autoregressive decoding fast also makes it the thing that runs out of memory first.
eBPF: tracing syscalls without a kernel module
Attaching a verified program to a tracepoint, and why this beats strace under load.
Tuning TCP BBR and fq on a high-latency link
Switching off loss-based congestion control on a long-fat path, and the fq gotcha for UDP.