Stories by nathan-barry

Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

We Are Repaganizing

Inside ThunderKittens' Python Bindings

The Great Downzoning

Kickstart.nvim: A minimal, single-file starting point for Neovim configuration

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market

How we made AWS Trainium 17x faster (for conv1d)

Show HN: Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch

The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

Streaming DiLoCo: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch

Benedict Anderson: Humane Nationalist

Fast-DLLM: Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM

BERT is just a single text diffusion step

Policy Concerns in an Era of Low Fertility: Comparison and Intensive Parenting [pdf]

Why Education Can Never Be Fun

Those Who Walk Away from Hogwarts

Doughnut Economics

If You Meet the Singaporean on the Road

Sources Say Bay Area House Party

The End of Credentialism

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