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Kola Ayonrinde
Personal blog · kolaayonrinde.com/blogaiprogramming
Kola Ayonrinde's personal blog at kolaayonrinde.com covers ai and programming. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Explainers on Mamba, the state space model, and a guide to Einops for NumPy-style tensor operations. HN readers link them in threads on Mamba and einsum.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-25
What Hacker News says?
https://thegradient.pub/mamba-explained/ https://jackcook.com/2024/02/23/mamba.html https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
Comment linking /blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
on “Codestral Mamba”Submitted Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers as a story · 270 points
HN discussionThere was a recent thread on explaining Mamba https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501982 ( https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html ) There was another one on the same thing, probably better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482428 ( https://jackcook.com/2024/02/23/mamba.html )
Comment linking /blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
on “Jamba: Production-grade Mamba-based AI model”Submitted DeepSpeed's Bag of Tricks for Speed and Scale: Part I as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat might explain the motivation for why the Δ variable is used and varied; but not the "Selectivity", which the article says is expressed by how the matrices B and C vary while consuming input. Something I've noticed is that B, C and Δ depend only on the current token. See this: https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/images/mamba/ssm_algorith... -- Another thing is that I've noticed that the definition of "SSM" in the…
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on “Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers”Submitted DeepSpeed's Bag of Tricks for Training Large Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis submission has the same content as the link here (submitted to HN about a month ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39501982 https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
Comment linking /blog/2024/02/11/mamba.html
on “Mamba Explained”There is a very nice library called Einops that makes it easier to work with einsum. See: Descriptive Matrix Operations with Einops — https://www.kolaayonrinde.com/blog/2024/01/08/einops.html Einops tutorial — https://einops.rocks/1-einops-basics/
Comment linking /blog/2024/01/08/einops.html
on “Understanding NumPy's Einsum”
