glassduck

Things I found interesting to learn

Inverse Kinematics for a 4-DoF Robot Arm

Solving the inverse kinematics of a cheap 4-servo arm from scratch: the geometry that reduces it to 2D, and the four equations that fall out.

— Jul 20, 2026 #robotics

From Floats to Integers: Quantizing a Neural Network Without Losing Accuracy

Taking an MNIST classifier from float32 down to 8-bit integers without losing accuracy: the scale-and-zero-point trick, and how a dot product survives the move to integers.

— Jun 10, 2026 #computation

Post-Training Quantization to Trit-Planes for Large Language Models

Understanding how trit-plane quantization compresses LLMs without retraining.

— Feb 8, 2026 #computation#llm