Thinking Out Loud

Curiosity, learning,
and things worth figuring out.

What I needed to understand before I could move on.

Published
Hardware Python Mar 2026

How much can you get from your CPU — and when do you need a GPU?

Most Python code uses a fraction of available CPU power. An interactive explainer on parallelism, OpenBLAS tiling, and where the CPU ceiling actually is.

On the workbench

The GenAI Wall — why domain expertise is the real bottleneck

Coming soon

What cuOpt actually does — and what it doesn't

Coming soon

Stochastic optimisation — one model or many solves?

Coming soon