https://cintu07.github.io/ long posts on ml infra, databases and inference, and the bugs in between. https://cintu07.github.io/posts/gradient-descent/ https://cintu07.github.io/posts/gradient-descent/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 the line almost every neural network is trained with, built from nothing and measured: when it is fast, slow, or explodes, and what sgd, momentum, adam and backprop each change. https://cintu07.github.io/posts/your-ai-has-amnesia/ https://cintu07.github.io/posts/your-ai-has-amnesia/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 three turns after a user removed their card, i watched the agent tell them it was still on file. same session. https://cintu07.github.io/posts/ciot-ternary-inference/ https://cintu07.github.io/posts/ciot-ternary-inference/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 0.54 ms per 1024x1024 ternary matvec on a snapdragon x laptop. zero dependencies, one binary, ~3,000 lines of c++ and python. https://cintu07.github.io/posts/styx-membership-system/ https://cintu07.github.io/posts/styx-membership-system/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Most failure detectors lie. STYX is a distributed membership system that returns a probability distribution instead of a boolean, handling uncertainty with honesty.