Jeff Wu is a dog lover, computer scientist, powerlifting enthusiast, writer, and gamer – roughly in that order on most days. This is where the writer part lives.
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The Barbell Bench Press
A walk through the bench press as Mark Rippetoe teaches it in Starting Strength, organized around the four phases of a rep: setup, descent, drive, and lockout, with side trips into troubleshooting, equipment, and what other coaches have to say. -
Catching Up on Java
A tour of the language and library changes an early 2000s-era Java developer should know about, from lambdas and records to pattern matching and virtual threads. -
From Linear Regression to Machine Learning
Follow linear regression into machine learning, from least squares to multiple predictors, nonlinear fits, validation, and logistic regression. -
Autoregressive Decoder-Only Transformers
How decoder-only transformers turn text into tokens, embeddings, attention, logits, and next-token predictions in an autoregressive loop. -
Definite Clause Grammars
A walk through Definite Clause Grammars in Prolog, from context-free grammars and append-based recognizers to difference lists, DCG notation, parse trees, and recursive ambiguous grammars.
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