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Rob Porter

Personal blog · ood.dev/postsaiprogramming

Rob Porter writes Out of Distribution, a personal blog at ood.dev about ai and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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Notes from the tail — long-form, interactive writing on transformers and computation by Rob Porter.

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  1. Submitted A Calculator, Compiled into a Transformer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Doom's renderer, compiled into transformer weights – no training anywhere as a story · 2 points

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  3. Submitted Torchwright: Compile computation graphs into vanilla transformer weights as a story · 2 points

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