{R}R Dev Notes


Found total of 9 articles.

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 33: Building Your Personal Vibe Coding Operating System

Chapter 33 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every sustainable Vibe Coder has a personal operating system — tools, files, conventions, and habits that turn the practices in this book into your own durable system. A teaser on the five files, the three models, the two editors, the one discipline, and the wonder to keep.
2026-05-19

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 20: The Weekly Cadence

Chapter 20 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Daily habits compound; weekly rituals keep the compounding honest. A teaser on the four weekly practices — the Friday Review, the Context Pack Audit, the Skill Refresh, and the Reading Hour — that separate sharp Vibe Coders from those who drift.
2026-05-06

7.4 Why QR Is Often Preferred

An in-depth, accessible explanation of why QR decomposition is the preferred method for solving least squares problems and ensuring numerical stability. Covers orthogonality, rank deficiency, Householder reflections, and the broader role of QR in scientific computing, with a smooth transition into eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
2025-10-05

7.3 Least Squares Problems

A clear, intuitive, book-length explanation of least squares problems, including the geometry, normal equations, QR decomposition, and SVD. Learn why least-squares solutions are central to ML and data science, and why QR provides a stable foundation for practical algorithms.
2025-10-04

7.2 Householder Reflections

A clear, intuitive, book-length explanation of Householder reflections and why they form the foundation of modern QR decomposition. Learn how reflections overcome the numerical instability of Gram–Schmidt and enable stable least-squares solutions across ML, statistics, and scientific computing.
2025-10-03

7.1 Gram–Schmidt and Modified GS

A clear, practical, book-length explanation of Gram–Schmidt and Modified Gram–Schmidt, why classical GS fails in floating-point arithmetic, how MGS improves stability, and why real numerical systems eventually rely on Householder reflections. Ideal for ML engineers, data scientists, and numerical computing practitioners.
2025-10-02

Chapter 7 — QR Decomposition

A deep, intuitive introduction to QR decomposition, explaining why orthogonality and numerical stability make QR essential for least squares, regression, kernel methods, and large-scale computation. Covers Gram–Schmidt, Modified GS, Householder reflections, and why QR is often preferred over LU and normal equations.
2025-10-01

2.1 Floating-Point Numbers (IEEE 754)

A detailed, intuitive guide to floating-point numbers and the IEEE 754 standard. Learn how computers represent real numbers, why precision is limited, and how rounding, overflow, subnormals, and special values affect numerical algorithms in AI, ML, and scientific computing.
2025-09-08

Numerical Linear Algebra: Understanding Matrices and Vectors Through Computation

Learn how linear algebra actually works inside real computers. A practical guide to LU, QR, SVD, stability, conditioning, and the numerical foundations behind modern AI and machine learning.
2025-09-01