Notes

A collection of recent notes

• Codestory Podcast: Why We Started Arcade

  — October 15, 2025
• Background on Sam Partee and the founding story of Arcade.
• ArcadeFounderPodcastTalk

• This New Way Podcast: AI Agents Run Your Inbox, Calendar & Socials

  — July 30, 2025
• Discussing AI agents handling communications and scheduling with Arcade.
• AgentsArcadePodcastTalk

• What is MCP? LLM Tools and Where We Are Going with Agents

  — May 21, 2025
• A discussion on MCP, tool permissions, security, agent memory, and where agents are headed.
• AgentsMCPSecurityTalkTools

• AI Agents: How to Make Them Useful

  — January 30, 2025
• Practical strategies to make AI agents actually useful.
• AgentsProductivityTalk

• Llama 3.2 Tool Calling

  — August 2, 2024
• Llama 3.2 Tool Calling
• LLMLLamaTool-Calling

• Lambda Pricing

  — April 15, 2024
• Lambda Pricing
• AWSDeveloperServerless

• Slides LLM in Production Talk: Vector Databases and Large Language Models

  — April 13, 2023
• Slides for my talk at LLM in Production 2023
• LLMRedisTalkVector-similarity

• Slides for NVIDIA GTC Talk: Improving Data Systems for Merlin and Triton

  — March 23, 2023
• Slides for my talk at NVIDIA GTC 2023
• Feature-StoreRecommendation-systemsRedisTalkVector-similarity

• Brief Primer on Parallel Programming

  — October 20, 2022
• The "I have 10 minutes" introduction to parallel programming with examples in Python and C.
• DeveloperHPCPython

• Vector Databases and AI-powered Search

  — September 13, 2022
• Introduction to vector embeddings, search, and storage with examples.
• RedisTalkVector-similarity

• Using Machine Learning at Scale in Numerical Simulations with SmartSim

  — June 6, 2022
• Published in the Journal of Computational Science, this paper shows how SmartSim was used to augment an ocean model (MOM6) with an AI-based, eddy kinetic energy parameterization to improve the climatology of the model. This particular implementation improved the RMSE of the objective metric by 20% compared to the reference simulation.
• AIClimate-ModelingDeep-LearningHPCPaperSmartsim

• Online Analytics and ML for HPC Simulations - Pangeo Showcase

  — June 16, 2021
• Pangeo Showcase talk about using SmartSim for online analytics, processing, and inference for HPC simulations. Pangeo is awesome. Great group of folks.
• HPCSmartSimTalk

• CrayLabs @ RedisConf 2021

  — June 3, 2021
• The talk that Matthew Ellis and I gave at RedisConf in 2021 about SmartSim and it’s usage of Redis
• HPCSmartSimTalk

• Generative Teaching Networks

  — May 31, 2021
• This paper explores Generative Teaching Networks (GTN), which are similar to GANs but instead of compete, two networks cooperate on a task. With applications in multiple domains, GTNs can aid supervised learning training times, learn Reinforcement Learning tasks like cart-pole, and perform Neural Architecture Search (NAS).
• AIDeep-LearningPaper-Notes

• Threading in Python

  — January 1, 2021
• Threading in Python can sometimes be very confusing and frustrating. Understanding when to use the Threading module can make things much easier. These notes give some light background and some examples of good threading usage.
• DeveloperPythonTutorial

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