Welcome to my personal blog, proudly ignored by everyone. Below you can find some more personal writing and thoughts I thought I’d share. You might still consider them projects/side-projects but the focus is on education, my own learning and small updates rather than creating something production-ready or making a larger, novel scientific contribution.
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Growing Neural Cellular Automata
A tutorial for implementing self-organizing, growing and regenerative neural cellular automata. After reproducing the results of the original paper, we discuss potential ideas for further research, talk about the field of NCA as well as its potential future impact on AI.
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Creating a +10,000 Line Python Package
While working on BEAMZ, my custom EM simulation package, I learned a lot about the numerical optics and photonics but also a ton about software architecture and how to manage larger projects. I want to review and explain some of that here in form a simple overview.
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File Management in Tauri 2.0 with Rust
If you are just getting started with Tauri 2.0, opening, modifying, and saving files can seem quite a bit tricky. If you choose to use Rust rather than using the API provided by Tauri and struggle to get it working, this post is for you. Let’s make a simple text file editor.
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OpenGL Shaders
Explaining briefly what shaders are and then moving on to writing two simple ones in GLSL. The first one similar to a lava lamp and the second one a little mountain range under a blue sky with a distance fog. Turns out, shaders are like painting directly with mathematics.
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Neural Network Accelerators (2024)
A short overview of mostly commercial AI hardware. A rough comparison of ASICs, FPGAs, GPUs, and looking at compute requirements and energy consumption. I end this post with the realization that we need to take a first-principles physics approach to narrow down what future AI accelerator designs will have to look like because the market is complex and largely driven by momentum.
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Dubins Paths for Waveguide Routing
What does the perfect waveguide routing look like? Dubins paths, already well known in robotics and control theory, turn out to be a simple and highly practical solution. This post notes a few useful recources and explains what the advantages of Dubins paths are compared to other waveguide interconnects that are often used.
GDSFactory Used daily for better, quicker, and easier routing. -
Introduction to Deep Learning with PyTorch
How do neural networks work? What is backpropagation? Computational Graphs? Auto-Differentiation? This post explains the basic concepts of training neural networks.
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Professional Figures with Matplotlib (2020)
An introduction into the Matplotlib API, how to get started customizing plots, and create professional figures for your scientific work.
+100K views across the internet.