grok.....grok ?
What happens when you push a model past generalization? Does it know the rule, or just the data?
FIG_001[ GENERALIZATION ]
ARTICLE NO. 02 · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Marching with rays
Build a raymarcher/raytracer with anti-aliasing, from scratch, within 168 lines of Java.
graphics, java
FIG_002[ DISTANCE FIELD ]
ARTICLE NO. 03 · 24 Jul 2026 · 11 min read
Never repeating, never leaving
Four chaotic systems, one Python framework, and the one that refused to fit it.
chaos, python, visualization
FIG_003[ STRANGE ATTRACTOR ]
ARTICLE NO. 04 · 06 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A renderer that keeps notes on itself
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
FIG_004[ SELF-SIMILARITY ]
ARTICLE NO. 05 · 18 Aug 2026 · 16 min read
Where Does Computation End?
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
FIG_005[ HALTING BOUNDARY ]
ARTICLE NO. 06 · 02 Sep 2026 · 18 min read
Twenty-three people, 256 bits
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
FIG_006[ COLLISION ]
ARTICLE NO. 07 · 08 Sep 2026 · 10 min read
Programming an attention kernel in Triton
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
FIG_007[ THE WALL ]