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Explainers I keep up to date, and stories that happened once.
- Systems and infrastructureVirtualization: The CPU Is the Easy Part
What happens when a virtual machine runs your code: most instructions run straight on the processor, and the interesting engineering lives where the host has to step in. One store instruction, followed from an emulated network card to a real one, and what the same pattern did to memory, clocks, and Kubernetes.
- AI and mindsThe Square Root of 254
A kitchen-table experiment with Claude back in March, the interpretability paper Anthropic published last week, and the run I would like someone with a big enough machine to make.