About

My name is Allan, I am 182cm tall, weigh 68kg and ... wait, letme try again

My favorite color is blue ... that's not quite right...

I attend this thing called a "university", not a very flattering description in my opinion...

I enjoy going out for walks, good conversations, and reading. Some books that changed my perspective in the past while:

• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• Siddhartha
• The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
• Steppenwolfe
• The Budda Said...
• The Journey to the East
• The Glass Bead Game
• The Tao Te Ching
• Skin in the Game
• Antifragile
• The Black Swan
• The Tartar Steppe
• Fooled by Randomness
• The Bed of Procrustes
• The Germ Theory of Management
• The Open Society

And loads of fantasy fiction, light novels and manga that didn't quite cut it (although the last good one I read was The Will of the Many)

How about work? I have some experience in compilers, GPUs, GPU compilers and machine learning. I worked on a machine learning compiler targeting deep learning models, I've worked on a machine learning system (self-driving) that and used compilers and GPU programming to speed it up. I developed custom GPU kernel libraries for a key module (sparse-convolution for the LiDAR backbone). Visualization tools for debugging training instability. And solving training instability issues, delivering better metrics...

I'm beginning to enjoy programming again, because I'm re-discovering, to quote Fred Brooks: "Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men."

And as Nicholas Nassim Taleb says: "You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt."

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