Gianluca Truda

Become Stronger. Defy Nature. Have Fun.

Never graduate, revisiting RL, and orbital mechanics | Weeknotes

Week 44 of 2024. Week 12 of RC.

4 Nov 2024 · 5 min · Gianluca Truda

The universe is a big and numerically-unstable video game | Weeknotes

Week 43 of 2024. Week 11 of RC.

28 Oct 2024 · 6 min · Gianluca Truda

Cargo build and SpaceX-inspired graphics | Weeknotes

Week 42 of 2024. Week 10 of RC.

21 Oct 2024 · 9 min · Gianluca Truda

Gigabucks, burning my Mac's GPU, and Karpathy's lament | Weeknotes

Week 41 of 2024, Week 9 of RC.

14 Oct 2024 · 8 min · Gianluca Truda

DevLog: llmpossible

How I built a command-line LLM on Apple Silicon for RC’s ‘Impossible Stuff Day’

8 Oct 2024 · 21 min · Gianluca Truda

Shader art, links, and assorted ponderings | Weeknotes

Week 40 of 2024, Week 8 of RC.

6 Oct 2024 · 8 min · Gianluca Truda

Second half of RC, falling leaves, and turning off the copilot | Weeknotes

Week 39 of 2024, Week 7 of RC.

27 Sep 2024 · 4 min · Gianluca Truda

Continuing at RC, a new game, and epic links | Weeknotes

I started writing weeknotes as part of learning generously when I started at Recurse. But the distinction between Recurse and non-Recurse has increasingly blurred and I’d like to continue making weeknotes after I never graduate. To that end, I’m trying out a new format for my weeknotes. Tell me what you think! See previous weeknotes via the weeknotes tag. Updates Decided to extend to a 12-week batch at the Recurse Center....

20 Sep 2024 · 6 min · Gianluca Truda

RC Weeknotes 05

Week 5 of Recurse: Move fast and make games.

16 Sep 2024 · 5 min · Gianluca Truda

What OpenAI's o1 really means

The AGI is dead. Long live the AGI.

16 Sep 2024 · 6 min · Gianluca Truda