Impact of Inference Backends on LLM Reproducibility: Notes from a Research Paper
Recently I read aboyt this article: The Silent Hyperparameter: Quantifying the Impact of Inference Backends on LLM Reproducibility Here is what I lear…
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Your Brain Is a Rendering Engine. So Is Every LLM.
Part 1 of 3. The rest of the series: Part 2: More Compute Won't Wake It Up . Part 3: Two Render Layers Deep Before You've Even Formed an Opinion . Las…
The Chatbot Was Easy. The Engineering Wasn't.
Part 1 of a series on building a production banking AI chatbot. When our team kicked off the banking chatbot project, I genuinely thought my job was a…
🚀 Mastering OOP for Interviews : Understanding Abstraction from First Principles (C++)
Series: Master OOP for Software Engineering Interviews Introduction Ask ten beginner developers: "What is abstraction?" Most answers sound like this: …
Which Is to Be Master? Language, Authority and LLMs
Introduction “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The q…
Building SaarDB, Part 2: LSM Trees
In Part 1, SaarDB had two pieces: a Write Ahead Log (WAL) for durability, an in-memory map for serving reads and writes. That works as a starting poin…
From Source Code to Binary: What Does GCC Actually Do? part 2
In the last part of my first article on how GCC compiles, I explained the System V AMD64 ABI convention for passing parameters, it's time to explain h…
[Trend][Tech] Quantum Computing Companies in 2026 (76 Major Players) - The Quantum Insider
The industry is described as a "dual-track" race. On one side are incumbents (Big Tech) with massive infrastructure and deep pockets. On the other is …
Why Hijri Date Conversion Breaks Naive Math Formulas
If you search "convert Gregorian to Hijri" you'll find dozens of one-line formulas floating around StackOverflow, most of them some variant of hijriYe…
How I'm re-discovering computer science with LLM revolution
I've been in this business for years and the best (or worst?) thing is that once I gain enough experience to feel comfortable as an expert, something …
What I Learned in Week 8 of Python — Stacks, Queues & Linked Lists
Week 7 was hash maps and two pointers — patterns that lean on Python's built-in dict , set , and list . Week 8 was different. This week I built the da…
Building a chikku OS
mintOS Developer Handbook Table of Contents Boot Process Screen Driver Keyboard Driver Input System Kernel Library Parser & Shell Tool Purpose GCC…
The Developer's Map of Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Fault-Tolerant Machines
Let's be honest: when most developers hear "quantum computing," their first reaction is somewhere between mild curiosity and existential panic . It so…
Dennis Ritchie - A person who founded the digital world
Every single person in this world owes to this person a "thank you" , even if he/she does not know who this man is. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (Septem…
dev.to How Online Casinos Prove Their RNG Is Fair, and Why Most Software Can't
Math.random() returns a number between 0 and 1, and roughly nobody reading this could explain what happens between the call and the return. That is fi…
Stop Guessing Your Cache Locality: Verify JEP 401 Value Class Flattening with JFR
Stop Guessing Your Cache Locality: Verify JEP 401 Value Class Flattening with JFR JEP 401 value classes are a massive win for memory density, but too …
The Evolution of Circuit Compression
Miniaturization replaced the tube with the transistor. The currency of compromise changed from watts of heater power to milliwatts of leakage and diss…
Cache Deep Dive III — Replacement Policies, Prefetch, and Single-Thread Memory Access
The previous article discussed the static structure of caches. This part moves into dynamic aspects: when a program continuously issues read requests,…
LLVM #6 — Compiling to Object Code.
This is a short chapter but with a very tangible and "objective" payoff. Basically, every function we typed into the REPL got compiled and ran inside …
Looking for Tech Workers to join a research study!
Hello everyone I am a CS student researcher at New Mexico State University , working on a research project to better understand how tech workers consi…
What Is Unix Timestamp? A Complete Beginner's Guide
Introduction If you've ever worked with APIs, databases, server logs, programming languages, or cloud platforms, you've probably encountered a long nu…
From Business Technology in Egypt to CS in Canada: My First Year in Tech
A year ago, I was in a completely different place, both geographically and academically. I was studying Business Technology in Egypt, a path that focu…
AI as a Thin Client and the Crisis of Knowledge Succession: An Academic Analysis
Two Hypotheses In the contemporary discussion about artificial intelligence, two distinct hypotheses intersect and are often conflated. The first hypo…
Markov Chain Coin Sequence: E[HH] vs E[HTH] Explained
In This Article The Question The Intuition Trap Building the State Machine for HH Solving the System: E[HH] = 6 Building the State Machine for HTH Sol…
History of Linux & Unix
Unix Unix was Created in 1969 at bell labs by ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. It was designed to be simple, multiuser, multitasking and port…
Solving a Logistics Problem Using Genetic Algorithms
A week back, I started exploring Genetic Algorithms — and honestly, the concept blew my mind a little. The idea that you can solve complex optimizatio…
Navigating the IT Job Market: A Guide for Aspiring Software Engineers
The era of the IT industry is evolving rapidly. With the rise of AI and a highly competitive job market, aspiring software engineers whether pursuing …
Python list Internals: How Dynamic Arrays Work Under the Hood
A Python list is a capacity-adaptive linear container backed by a dynamic array . This design gives list excellent performance for tail operations, bu…
Python GIL: Why One Lock Rules the Entire Interpreter
The Origin of the GIL Let's start with a question: are Python's built-in objects like list and dict thread-safe ? At the Python level, yes — list , di…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Implementing StegoPNet for Deep Image Steganography 🚀
Imagine being able to hide a high-resolution photo of a baboon inside a photo of Lena, where the resulting image looks absolutely identical to the ori…