From 4f0f7b35d9e9eab66d97f0f126eec20d5c64bcd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "ml-systems-publisher[bot]" <304658946+ml-systems-publisher[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:19:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update post: Neural Networks From Zero: From a Single Number to a Billion Parameters --- .../.write-source.json | 28 ++----------------- .../posts/neural-networks-from-zero/index.mdx | 4 +-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/.write-source.json b/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/.write-source.json index 2086417..4a0ac4c 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/.write-source.json +++ b/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/.write-source.json @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "version": 1, "meta": { "title": "Neural Networks From Zero: From a Single Number to a Billion Parameters", - "summary": "A neural network never sees a word, an image, or a sound — only a list of numbers. Starting from that one fact and a single neuron, this day-zero guide builds the whole machine: how any input becomes numbers, why weights, biases, and activations each exist, how neurons stack into layers and layers into a model, and how to compute a model's size and running cost by hand.", + "summary": "A neural network never sees a word, an image, or a sound — only a list of numbers. Starting from that one fact and a single neuron, this guide builds the whole machine: how any input becomes numbers, why weights, biases, and activations each exist, and how neurons stack into layers and layers into a model.", "authors": [ "dinesh" ], @@ -3595,21 +3595,10 @@ ], "children": [] }, - { - "id": "paragraph-102", - "type": "separator", - "props": {}, - "children": [] - }, { "id": "44bdadb3-da54-4a7b-9d64-0799eadb9d0e", - "type": "paragraph", - "props": { - "backgroundColor": "default", - "textColor": "default", - "textAlignment": "left" - }, - "content": [], + "type": "divider", + "props": {}, "children": [] }, { @@ -3630,17 +3619,6 @@ } ], "children": [] - }, - { - "id": "9e403107-b71e-4bb2-86b2-573648d35a88", - "type": "paragraph", - "props": { - "backgroundColor": "default", - "textColor": "default", - "textAlignment": "left" - }, - "content": [], - "children": [] } ], "tableVariants": {} diff --git a/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/index.mdx b/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/index.mdx index b62d9c6..76d4f58 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/index.mdx +++ b/src/content/posts/neural-networks-from-zero/index.mdx @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- title: 'Neural Networks From Zero: From a Single Number to a Billion Parameters' -summary: 'A neural network never sees a word, an image, or a sound — only a list of numbers. Starting from that one fact and a single neuron, this day-zero guide builds the whole machine: how any input becomes numbers, why weights, biases, and activations each exist, how neurons stack into layers and layers into a model, and how to compute a model''s size and running cost by hand.' +summary: 'A neural network never sees a word, an image, or a sound — only a list of numbers. Starting from that one fact and a single neuron, this guide builds the whole machine: how any input becomes numbers, why weights, biases, and activations each exist, and how neurons stack into layers and layers into a model.' authors: ['dinesh'] date: '2026-07-12' updated: '2026-07-18' @@ -410,6 +410,6 @@ Start to finish, with no hand-waving, you can now explain: That is the atom, the molecule, the organism, its size, and its running cost — the day-zero ground truth. Every advanced topic — attention, transformers, KV caches, quantization, distributed training — is built on exactly these pieces. When they show up, they won’t be magic. They’ll be assembly. ---- +
_Next: why generating text one token at a time makes a GPU spend 99% of its time waiting on memory instead of computing — the compute-bound vs memory-bound story that shapes every serving system._