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How an LLM Changes its Mind

Safety and efficiency with universal approximators and Turing machines

May 5 • Avik De

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April 2026

The First Paradigm in Robotics & AI Research: Lessons from Computer Engineering

Commoditization and end-to-end learning have consolidated robotics and AI. What's next for research labs?

Apr 29 • Avik De and Chris Paxton

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Honor's humanoid ran the fastest half-marathon: how did they do it?

Engineering isn't magic, it's a matter of tradeoffs

Apr 22 • Avik De

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Building a reasoning hierarchical robotics pipeline from scratch

Part 5: A demo combining the best features of end-to-end and classical approaches

Apr 7 • Avik De

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March 2026

The Art of Architectural Analysis: Utilization, Throughput, Latency

Putting TinyXPU Under the Microscope

Published on Chip Insights • Mar 30

A coding agent equivalent for robotics pipelines

Part 4: Closing the action loop with a VLA vs. a spatial VLM "agent"

Mar 26 • Avik De

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Lessons from AVs on safety in end-to-end pipelines

Recent developments in autonomous vehicles on recognizing and handling distribution shift

Mar 20 • Avik De

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Mapping Algorithms to Custom Silicon - Part 2

Running matrix multiplication on a TPU-style architecture

Published on Chip Insights • Mar 15

Systolic arrays for general robotics, AI, and scientific computing

MatMuls dominate today's accelerators, but the original vision was much broader

Mar 12 • Avik De

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February 2026

Debugging as architecture insight: dissecting a VLA

Part 3: Hands-on debugging of a vision-language-action model as a lens into architecture, safety, and verifiability

Feb 26 • Avik De

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What Wiener knew about (artificial) intelligence in 1948

Cybernetics anticipated feedback, structure, and the human stakes of machine intelligence with unsettling precision

Feb 21 • Avik De

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Cache effects in object-oriented code: computer architecture meets programming

A simple demonstration revealed five layers of computer science & engineering abstraction fighting each other

Feb 10 • Avik De and Greg Anderson

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