Akshay's Expedition Logs
Deep dives into distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and the architectures that make AI at scale actually work
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Codex
14 min read•2026-04-18
Attention is a Potluck
A tactile, phone-readable walkthrough of the single mechanism that makes every modern LLM actually understand language — no matrices first, no jargon, no mush.
GenAI
14 min read•2026-03-18
Why Your AI Images Look Pixelated — Quantization, Distillation & Inference
I spent 18 minutes generating an image that looked like a bad oil painting. Here's the exact threshold where quantization breaks down — and why distilled models can't use negative prompts.
Distributed Systems
•2026-03-15
Production Ray: Patterns, Mistakes, and Lessons
The final part of our Ray deep dive: five production patterns that work, five mistakes that hurt, and a debugging playbook for distributed ML systems.