Clustered Thoughts

The Paradox of Deliberate Fluency

On Timothy Gallwey's Self 1 and Self 2, and the subtler interference of recognizing that we are in flow.

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Fragments
A Scheduler as a Lens into LLM Inference

Building a job scheduler in Go and using it as a lens into LLM inference scheduling — tracing every design decision back to its vLLM parallel.

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Go Schedulers vLLM LLM Inference · LLM Infrastructure Systems Programming
Building a GPT-2 Tokenizer in Go

Rebuilding a GPT-2 BPE tokenizer from scratch in Go, with benchmarks and optimization deep-dives.

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Large Language Models Go · Large Language Models
Building an LSM Storage Engine from Scratch in Go, Part 4

Benchmarking the LSM: throughput-latency curves, group commit tuning, and the methodology behind it all.

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Storage Engines Go Systems Programming · Storage Engines
Building an LSM Storage Engine from Scratch in Go, Part 3

Leveled compaction, per-directory SSTable layout, and dropping the manifest file.

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Storage Engines Go Systems Programming · Storage Engines