This is the website and digital garden of Nathan Barry. I’m an engineer/researcher interested in systems and machine learning. I currently post-train edit prediction models at Zed, and recently graduated from UT Austin with a BS in CS & Math and an MS in CS. Occasionally, I write about things that interest me.
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Machine Learning
- 2026 Can gzip be a language model?
- Language Modeling Without Neural Networks
- 2025 Diffusion LLMs are Faster at Writing Code
- BERT is just a Single Text Diffusion Step
- Local SGD and DiLoCo Research Musings
- Running GPT-2 in WebGL with Classic GPU Programming
- 2023 Intro to Autograd Engines: Karpathy's Micrograd in Go
Programming
- 2025 Curserve: Minimizing Agentic Coding End-to-End Latency
- Running GPT-2 in WebGL with Classic GPU Programming
- 2024 How to Fix Hugo's iOS Code-Block Text-Size Rendering Issue
- 2023 Intro to Autograd Engines: Karpathy's Micrograd in Go
- Where Rust Shines: Algebraic Types and Match Statements
- Rust Front-End Development with Dioxus