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In the course of my work I found myself looking up the specs of various TPUs and GPUs quite frequently.

This is an ongoing list of the best articles I’ve read this year.

I published an account of an interesting* yak shaving journey I went on to debug a custom Pallas kernel on TPU.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of my employer.

I’ve been a die-hard vim user for 12 years.

Over the years I’ve used a variety of different note taking apps and systems: 2008: During college I took mainly handwritten notes.

Last week I attended an AI product summit at the beautiful AGI House on the peninsula.

This is an ongoing list of the best articles I’ve read this year.

Here’s how to emulate multiple CPUs when running JAX.

Last year after rejoining Google, I became a manager for the first time.

In 2018 while studying ML and cryptography around the same time, I realized that many cryptographic algorithms can be expressed as computation graphs, the same ones supported by major ML frameworks, which led to a completely frivolous attempt to implement…

Keeping it short and sweet this year.

Recently I’ve been trying to learn more about JAX, the next-gen ML framework from DeepMind.

Here’s a list of articles from this year that resonated with me.

A while back I put together a personal “top 10” list of trail runs I want to complete in my lifetime.

Here’s a quick list of my favorite software engineering books I’ve read over the years.

I wanted to take a second to reflect on the tone and content of this blog, which overall I’m not super satisfied with.

I’ve observed during my software engineering career the different reactions senior engineers have when new ideas are brought up.

Joining Google in 2016 vs. 2024.

I really enjoyed this book.

Hi, I’m trying to blog more this year.

Hi there, it’s time to reflect on what I was up to this year.

Recently I’ve been hacking on ChineseDict, a fast web frontend to look up Chinese words.

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Hi friends, Like last year, here’s a brief overview of what I got up to in 2022.

When I have a running injury, it’s not always the right thing to completely stop running and wait for it to heal.

Inspired by Julia Evans’s post Questions I’m asking in interviews and Chip Huyen’s Questions to ask your interviewers section from her ML Interviews book, here are the questions I ask in interviews, targeting staff roles in ML infrastructure.

View from the second peak.

Happy new year!

I wasn’t initially planning on writing a year in review blog post for 2021, but I was recently reminded of how nice it is to have a concise public record of the things that were important to me for each year (even if nobody other than me reads it).

Let me state the obvious: recruiters aren’t actually sending most recruiter emails.

Anki and Spaced Repetition I’ve adopted the Anki app to help learn new vocabulary and retain various things I learn Currently my decks are: My Anki decks Spaced repetition flashcards are great.

2020.

I recently went through this process and couldn’t find a guide (though I swear one existed at some point in the past).

Despite this trip report being over 9 months late, I wanted to share it because I can’t stop thinking about how positive an experience this conference was.

A bot who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

I think the most effective way to learn a language is to prioritize learning the day-to-day most frequently used words.

center-384 The end of the pain cave.

ColbyBox (2012) I turned an infrequently used LCD screen in a prominent location in our college’s student center into a Twitter live feed that also supported photos and videos.

This is a “brag doc” to contain all my accomplishments in a more long-winded and media-rich format than my resume can handle.

In 2019 I got married—twice!

Here are my 4 favorite books from 2019. 1.

I did it!!

I’m signed up for the California International Marathon (a.k.a.

Quick life update: I’ve left the Chrome team and joined Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project).

I hosted an intern for the first time this summer.

Note:This post had a good run, but it is now very out of date.

One year ago I conducted my first software engineering interview at Google.

tl;dr: I signed up for the SF Marathon (this would have been my first marathon), then overtrained, got injured, and am currently recovering.

If you’re a software engineer, you’re likely familiar with unsolicited emails from recruiters.