Isaac Clayton

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• Marathon Row
  January 11, 2026

  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
  August 29, 2025

  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
  May 27, 2025

  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
  April 25, 2025

  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
  April 18, 2025

  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
  April 17, 2025

  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
  April 16, 2025

  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...