Jul 29, 2026
How CKE X-Ray Found Qwen3.6's First Bad Circuit
Follow a real CKE X-Ray investigation from a wrong Qwen3.6 token to a grouped recurrent-topology mismatch, including what passes and what remains open.
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Jul 29, 2026
Follow a real CKE X-Ray investigation from a wrong Qwen3.6 token to a grouped recurrent-topology mismatch, including what passes and what remains open.
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Trace Qwen3.5's hybrid circuit, see how CKE X-ray finds numerical divergence, and separate exact runtime parity from the observed quality of a 0.8B model.
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Follow an LLM request from tokenization through prefill, KV-cache construction and decode, then see why CPU projections become GEMM or GEMV and how CKE compares them with llama.cpp.
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Jul 15, 2026
Why Linux profiler permissions, kernel symbol visibility, PMU compatibility, and application debug symbols are separate evidence boundaries.
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Jul 13, 2026
How Nemotron mixes recurrent state, attention, dense MLP, and routed experts, and why exact routing becomes a CPU memory and scheduling problem.
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How C-Kernel-Engine model-family templates declare architecture, dataflow, lowering, memory, generated C, and evidence gates on Linux CPUs.
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Jun 27, 2026
Kernel Engineers Are Worth Billions In 2026: Chris Lattner, Mojo, LLVM, and the Compiler Layer of AI Compiler systems note Chris Lattner's career is a reminder that compiler engineers and ke...
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Jun 23, 2026
AI kernel learning map This post is a bridge between the earlier ShivasNotes fundamentals series and the next long-form video: what AI kernels should you actually know if you want to underst...
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Jun 13, 2026
Thread Pools in C: How CPU Runtimes Dispatch Work Across Cores Runtime note Companion note for the threadpool video. This post zooms into the local runtime layer: how persistent workers rece...
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