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Spent a lot of time traveling this week, and didn't get around to exploring as much as I would have liked.
While on a flight, the person sitting next to me worked in hardware: something I know very little about. She worked on Silicon chip design, and her husband was an engineer at Lockheed Martin working on helicopters, and briefly described the setup on how different companies build chips -- the supply chain was significantly more convoluted than I'd expected, and significantly more concentrated.
I asked for a 101 series to build a basic understanding of the hardware manufacturing process, and was pointed to Chris Mack's YouTube Channel, which seems fascinating. I'm starting with his career retrospective.
Whatever path you find yourself on, find something to be passionate about.
Unfortunately, I've been struggling with PyTorch's CMake scripts somewhat over the past few weeks. CMake seems reasonable, but I still don't have much of an intuition for it. I tried to see if any books I used covered it, but didn't turn up much.
I have a lot of study / exploration to do stacked up to catch up on going forward. There's even a BlueSky paper I'm curious about.
— Kunal