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My overall goal is to understand and explain the microscopic details of the technology in our lives. I will try to be clear, and to use a variety of tools to bring the subjects to life including such things as publishing 3D models you can explore interactively, or publishing the code used in a project.

I also have a general interest in computing, both hardware and software, and the way those interact. You will be unlikely to find me pontificating on the best AI algorithms but you might find a series discussing how low precision matrix multiply can be implements, or how microscopic lenses might be useful for lithography. Random stuff but probably a little away from the popular topics.

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