2026Compute & inference9 min read
A client-side guard for in-flight tool calls on Gemini 3.8 Live, tested with speech: bookings after “stop” fell from 12 of 12 runs to 0 of 12. Design, ablations, limits.
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2026Compute & inference10 min read
Thirty Gemini 3.8 Live sessions, with text and speech: no tool-call cancellation arrived for a pending booking, and BLOCKING mode booked twice. Method, timings, limits.
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2026Robotics & neural signals5 min read
A fixed-goal simulation study with one-second holds, collision checks and full traces: 88/100 successes with a joint plan versus 29/100 with direct control.
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2026Optimization & energy4 min read
QuantumGrid: why encoded energy, feasibility and physical cost must be separated before comparing quantum and classical scheduling solvers.
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2026Robotics & neural signals3 min read
NeuroLLM: EEG transformer components, disjoint data sessions, explicit synthetic inputs and the requirements for evaluating pre-training.
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2026Robotics & neural signals7 min read
From targeting defects to arm collisions: a frozen simulation repair reaches 35/100 targets versus 0/100, with complete traces, replay and explicit limits.
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2026Compute & inference4 min read
CUDA and Triton kernel design, numerical correctness, GPT-2 integration boundaries and a protocol for trustworthy GPU performance measurements.
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2025Compute & inference2 min read
Design notes on AI runtime layers: governing tool execution, preserving evidence and managing vendor choice and cost in production systems.
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2025Compute & inference2 min read
How to observe LLM behavior through evaluations, evidence and feedback loops, beyond the logs and resource metrics used for conventional services.
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2025Robotics & neural signals2 min read
Practical notes on deep learning for robotics: simulation, reinforcement learning, vision-language models and the constraints imposed by real hardware.
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2025Compute & inference2 min read
Practical RAG design notes covering retrieval objectives, indexing, chunking, hybrid scoring and orchestration, with pseudocode and an architecture diagram.
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2025Optimization & energy2 min read
Thinking about robot fleets as energy systems: task assignment, charging, power constraints and policies that balance cost against service quality.
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2025Optimization & energy2 min read
A practical introduction to qubit states, variational quantum circuits and hybrid training loops that combine quantum and classical computation.
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2026Compute & inference9 min read
A pending tool call survives a working resume on Gemini 3.8 Live, but after a silent loss every resume was refused for 15 minutes. A client-side recovery, measured.
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