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A running log of things I've built, broken, and figured out.

2026  5

April  2

Introducing the Digital Garden: My Machine Learning Wiki

April 15, 2026 · 2 min · 425 words · Chinmay Dharmik
Quartz Markdown Digital Garden Machine Learning Notes

Understanding TurboQuant: Near-Optimal Vector Quantization for LLMs

April 8, 2026 · 3 min · 569 words · Chinmay Dharmik
Machine Learning LLMs Quantization TurboQuant Notes

March  2

From Deadlocks to DDP: My Journey Building a 3-Node PyTorch Cluster

March 28, 2026 · 6 min · 1221 words · Chinmay Dharmik
PyTorch Distributed Training Homelab Machine Learning Linux Notes

I Broke My Fedora Setup… So I Rebuilt It with QEMU (And Never Looked Back)

March 12, 2026 · 20 min · 4057 words · Chinmay Dharmik
Virtualisation QEMU KVM Fedora Fedora Silverblue Linux Homelab Virt-Manager Windows VM GPU Passthrough Notes

January  1

Understanding Attention: Implementing a Transformer from Scratch in PyTorch

January 24, 2026 · 7 min · 1392 words · Chinmay Dharmik
PyTorch Transformers Machine Learning NLP Notes