Field notes / 2026
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Notes, tutorials, and deep dives into high-performance computing, GPU programming, and systems engineering.
ZeroLangAgents
ZeroLang Field Notes: An Agent-First Language Meets Dijkstra
Testing an agent-first language by implementing Dijkstra and probing its limits.
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Tiny MPI Messages: The Cost of Convenience
What really drives overhead when sending tiny messages with MPI.
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Beating std::pow: Up to 7x Faster Exponentiation in C++
Making integer exponentiation 5.6–7.6× faster in a C++ solver.
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Your Benchmarks Are Wrong
Adaptive reruns that turn noisy measurements into reliable benchmarks.
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Can an LLM Optimize My Code Better Than I Can?
Comparing LLM-generated kernel optimizations with weeks of manual tuning.
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The Fastest std::find: How Doing More Work Makes You Faster
Why branchless C++ beat my hand-written AVX2 search.
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AOS vs SOA vs AoSoA: The Answer Is Not What You Think
Benchmarking memory layouts—and why the winner changes in a real simulation.
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Evolving Algorithms With My Claude Code Plan: ShinkaEvolve + Meridian
Connecting ShinkaEvolve to Claude Code for a circle-packing experiment.
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Does Shinka Rediscover My SoA Tricks? A Python N-body Warmup
An evolutionary optimizer rediscovers SoA and Numba, speeding up Python 80×.
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