Isaac Clayton

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Isaac Clayton

Entries

  • Habits and transition points

    Whenever you’re at a transition point in your life, I wonder why I’m writing this! moving to a new city, starting a n...

  • Classes start tomorrow

    Today is Sunday, the day of rest. My day today was very good. (My goodness it’s so nice to be back home in Cambridge,...

  • The Chisel

    I’ve been a fan of Conflict-Free replicated datatypes for a while. I wrote an old blog post about implementing them b...

  • I wish I were a better conversationalist

    “Well okay I’m so glad you got to call him, who was he? The Dean of AI at Google?” “Haha his name is Dean. Jeff Dean....

  • Marathon Row

    Happy Sunday! Two days ago, I woke up at 5:45am to row 26.2 miles. I walked on to the rowing team at MIT a year and a...

  • Inversions of Control

    What’s the difference between a library and a framework? It depends on your definitions. Here are mine: When using a ...

  • Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup

    tl;dr: I trained a neural network (NN), with logic gates in the place of activation functions, to learn a 3×3 kernel ...

  • Seeds of a Digital Garden

    N.B. I’m publishing some gems from writing I did over the course of two years while living in Brazil. Read the first ...

  • We need an LLVM project for browser engines

    N.B. I’m publishing some gems from writing I did over the course of two years while living in Brazil. Read the first ...

  • The Piano-Sleep Effect

    An old note. I’m publishing a backlog of writing I’ve done. Read the first post for more context. 2024-03-26 · Isaac ...

  • Replication > REST

    I’m publishing a backlog of writing I’ve done. Read the first post for more context. On today’s menu: I have been thi...