Data Structures: Arrays
How arrays work one level below the usual abstractions, from RAM layout to Two Sum
06/04/2026·Blog
~/notes
Notes from my studies and thoughts in between.
LayerNorm vs. RMSNorm: Why RMSNorm is Enough
LayerNorm centers and scales, RMSNorm only scales. A geometric explanation shows why centering is dispensable without losing model quality.
02/15/2026·Blog
PyTorch: Why view() fails after transpose()
transpose() makes tensors non-contiguous (logical ≠ physical order). view() only works with contiguous tensors → RuntimeError. Solution: use reshape() instead of view().
10/31/2025·Blog
SwabianGPT: How I finetuned a LLM for dialect-translation
How I fine-tuned a LLAMA 3.1 model on Swabian — data preparation, QLoRA training, and evaluation from the real world.
02/01/2025·Blog
Building a Neural Network from Scratch with Python & NumPy
A beginner-friendly guide to neural networks: from individual neurons to a complete Python model that predicts house prices using NumPy.
08/27/2024·Blog
Linear Regression in Machine Learning: A Beginner’s Guide
An introduction to linear regression: model definition, cost function, and gradient descent, explained with a simple example of students and their study hours.
01/25/2024·Blog