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Howie Yin

Following the AI frontier. Understanding the fundamentals.
Testing the ideas that challenge intuition.

AI Weekly

Industry & research briefings

A weekly perspective on models, research, AI hardware, agents, open source, and the businesses shaping the field. Not just what happened, but what actually changed.

Models & research
Hardware & infrastructure
Agents & products
Industry & open source

Latest report: 2026-10-18 — 2026-10-25

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AI Foundations

From intuition to understanding

Explore the ideas behind AI, from approachable fundamentals to implementation-level deep dives. Follow how methods evolved and connect the literature through focused surveys.

First principles
Deep dives
Evolution of ideas
Research surveys

AI Lab

Try it. Measure it. Question it.

A place for clever tricks, hands-on experiments, and counterintuitive results. Explore what works, when it breaks, and why the obvious answer is not always the right one.

Practical tricks
Reproducible experiments
Counterintuitive findings
Myth testing

Latest experiment: Softmax invariance in FP16

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Paper Readings

A personal research reading archive

A record of the papers I have read: the problems they address, how their methods work, what the experiments show, and what I take away for research and engineering.

LLM & VLM
Inference & training
Hardware & systems
Agents & multimodal AI

Latest reading · October 26, 2026

VRoPE：视频位置不是 Token 序号

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About

The person behind the notes

This is my space for learning in public: following AI developments, unpacking technical ideas, and sharing experiments.

Projects

Code & things I build

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