Learning, folded into little pockets.
Welcome to Dumplings, where I fold the things I’m learning into small notes: science, music, poetry, books, art, and the little questions still simmering in my head. I write to understand things better, and share them in case they help someone else think through them too.
Applying to Graduate School: Student Perspectives
Practical advice from students who have navigated graduate applications. What worked, what did not, and what they wish they had known.
Written through physics, mathematics, and the questions that begin where equations end. Somewhere in trying to understand the universe, I found a reflection of myself.
Before we compare CPUs and GPUs, we need to understand what a core is doing from the inside. This part looks at instruction memory, the program counter, the instruction register, the control unit, the register file, and the ALU.
Loss is something we slowly learn to live around. This blog explores its psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and poetry, from attachment and memory to grief, meaning, and absence.
Before a CPU or GPU can run a program, it first needs a way to turn electricity into 0s and 1s. This part starts at silicon and slowly builds up to the transistor, the tiny switch at the heart of every modern chip.
The beauty of beginning, the pressure of fast-moving AI research, the mistakes I made, and the small moments that kept me going.