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Structured long-form essays, mechanism breakdowns, and interactive notes.
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K3 Architecture IllustratedUnderstand K3's experts, attention, and depth-wise information flow through the computation of a single token: illustrated chapters, derivations, numerical examples, and resource tradeoffs.
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Xiao Wang Asks, Da Wang Answers: From KV Cache to YOCO and Shared Memory22 questions and answers between Xiao Wang and Da Wang, with diagrams: the KV cache, chained hashes, Claude’s cache breakpoints, DeepSeek’s persistence, YOCO’s shared memory, an 890-byte conditional ledger, approximate restoration, sparse retrieval and Engram. 17 mechanism diagrams and 4 offline interactive labs.
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A Question's Journey - LLM from Input to OutputA full mechanism timeline from one prompt through context, tokenization, Transformer internals, generation, tool calls, sampling, latency, and reasoning budget.
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