Shaurya ยท Log https://shauryasharma.tech Experimental engineering notes on AI, machine learning, graphics, programming, computation, and the things I build to understand how they work. en Programming an attention kernel in Triton https://shauryasharma.tech/programming-an-attention-kernel-in-triton.html https://shauryasharma.tech/programming-an-attention-kernel-in-triton.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building Triton GPU kernels from vector addition up to naive self-attention, finding and fixing one real correctness bug along the way, and naming honestly the wall that separates this from real FlashAttention. gpu programming, triton, machine learning Twenty-three people, 256 bits https://shauryasharma.tech/birthday-attack.html https://shauryasharma.tech/birthday-attack.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A purely combinatorial fact about shared birthdays forces a real engineering decision made decades later, why cryptographic hashes are 256 bits, not 128. cryptography, probability, python Where Does Computation End? https://shauryasharma.tech/where-does-computation-end.html https://shauryasharma.tech/where-does-computation-end.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A journey from the Halting Problem and Turing machines to hypercomputation, physical computation, and the question of whether reality can compute beyond Turing. computation, computability, hypercomputation, physics, philosophy A renderer that keeps notes on itself https://shauryasharma.tech/self-rewriting-mandelbrot.html https://shauryasharma.tech/self-rewriting-mandelbrot.html Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Mandelbrot renderer that doesn't cache to disk or a database - it rewrites its own source file to remember what it's already drawn. python, self-modifying-code, fractals Never repeating, never leaving https://shauryasharma.tech/never-repeating-never-leaving.html https://shauryasharma.tech/never-repeating-never-leaving.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four chaotic systems, one Python framework, and the one that refused to fit it. chaos, python, visualization Marching with rays https://shauryasharma.tech/marching-with-rays.html https://shauryasharma.tech/marching-with-rays.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build a raymarcher/raytracer with anti-aliasing, from scratch, within 168 lines of Java. graphics, java grok.....grok ? https://shauryasharma.tech/grok-grok.html https://shauryasharma.tech/grok-grok.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT What happens when you push a model past generalization? Does it know the rule, or just the data? research, machine learning, physics