Week#2: Baby Steps

Time Spent: ~10 Hours

Things done:

• Tackled Tinygrad docs with perplexity. Identified the main components and high-level process of conversion. This covered things my previous approach with just cursor+claude on the codebase did not.

• First time heard about JIT compilation and read up on it(Tinygrad uses it sometimes). Pretty Cool. Will revisit in a while to read more in depth.

• Went through the Micrograd codebase to understand it. It has a cool example of usage.

Thoughts: Slow week, had other commitments come up. But progress is always cool. I am happy.

The main issue I faced was "What the heck does an ML engineer need this for?" for every ML framework I looked at. I have an approach in mind that might be fruitful. Let's see how it pans out next week.

Resources:

• Tinygrad Documentation
• JIT Compilers: Computerphile has a great intro video here. And just used perplexity to crawl through the internet for it.
• Micrograd Codebase