Engineering Human-Like Color Palettes with OKLCH and K-Means
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The author details the creation of a color palette extractor that uses OKLCH-based clustering and perceptual merging rules to generate human-feeling palettes from images.
Algorithms & Optimization
Design and analysis of algorithms for solving optimization problems, including greedy methods, approximation algorithms, submodular optimization, and combinatorial search strategies.
Reading List
Research-Driven Agents: Enhancing AI Code Optimization via Literature Search
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Coding agents produce superior performance optimizations when they research academic papers and competing implementations to gain domain knowledge before touching code.
Mrdoob's Interactive Ball Pool Simulation
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An interactive web-based physics simulation of a ball pool created by mrdoob and hosted on CodePen.
Okmain: Perceptual Color Extraction Using Oklab and K-Means
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Okmain is a color extraction library that uses Oklab clustering and spatial weighting to find the most visually representative colors in an image.
Claude Opus 4.6 Solves Knuth's Hamiltonian Cycle Problem for Odd m
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Don Knuth details how Claude Opus 4.6 successfully solved a difficult graph theory conjecture for odd m through iterative algorithmic discovery and creative deduction.
The Agentic Breakthrough: How Modern LLMs Mastered High-Performance Coding
Modern AI agents have become highly effective at generating and optimizing complex, high-performance software when guided by expert oversight and strict behavioral constraints.
Maximizing Vocabulary Coverage with Books: A Submodular, NP-Hard Selection Problem
Maximizing vocabulary coverage across multiple books is NP-hard, so use greedy submodular optimization for efficient, high-quality approximations.
Cooley–Tukey: Turning the DFT into O(N log N) (and Why FFT ≠ DFT)
Cooley–Tukey factorizes and reindexes the DFT to turn O(N^2) work into O(N log N), forming the backbone of practical FFTs while clarifying that FFT = algorithm, DFT = result.
Procedural Islands III: Multi-Scale Noise and Topological Mountains for Final Elevation
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Multi-scale noise plus a topological mountain distance field, blended smartly, produces realistic island elevation ready for hydrology.
Hard Leetcode, Easy with Constraint Solvers
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Use constraint solvers to turn tricky interview algorithms into simple, robust models that are easy to extend.
Analog 3D-Optical Fixed-Point Computing for AI and Optimization
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An analog, 3D-optical fixed-point computer co-designed with iterative models accelerates both AI inference and real-world optimization with high robustness and projected 100× energy-efficiency gains over GPUs.
Sharing Early Diffusion Steps Across Similar Prompts for Efficient Text-to-Image Generation
Share early diffusion steps across similar prompts to generate image sets faster and better, without retraining.
Bandit-Based, Budget-Aware LLM Routing with Preference-Informed LinUCB (PILOT)
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Treat LLM routing as a contextual bandit and use a preference-informed LinUCB plus a knapsack budget policy to adaptively, cost-effectively pick the right model per query.