Hello Rangers

A few updates for y'all:

I could finally upload my talk on LLM & Tokenization in youtube! It's persian, but pinky promise, the next video will be English, probably on either of the following topics

1. LoRA, VeRA and DoRA
2. Muon optimizer
3. Some deepseek related stuff
4. An English version to my Persian conferences with some extra material added

In my Operating Systems course (as TA), I assigned a semester project: implement a modified CFS scheduler variant which I called ALFS (Anushiravan-level Fair Scheduler), this varient uses a min-heap instead of a red-black tree. The change makes it harder to copy while adding some fun.

One of my good friends, and in this sem, students, Sepehr, took it far beyond expectations, specially considering current semester incidents. He implemented ALFS in Zig and built an impressive repository that brings the idea to life.

I'm sharing this with pride—seeing a project that started as a lighthearted, somewhat meme-like concept evolve into the increasingly realistic ALFS feels incredibly rewarding. There is surely lots of room for improvement and a few bad choices of DS, but overall, seeing projects like this keep academic work interesting.

https://github.com/Alireza-Sobhdoost/ALFS-ZIG

I also like to have a chat with any of my friends or fellow rangers who happen to know a ton about ViTs and Few Shot Classification using Latent generation, or know sb which worked/knows these typa things

Holy mother of databases
https://youtu.be/C7gJ_UxVnSk

Mercury 2, A diffusion based LLM
https://youtu.be/Bqdf6Um_8OE

For docker enthusiasts:
https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim
https://github.com/wagoodman/dive

می‌بینم این روزها خیلی از بچه‌ها دارن از یک دوره‌ی سخت عبور می‌کنن. گفتم شاید بد نباشه کمی درباره‌ش حرف بزنیم.

برنامه‌نویس بودن ــ و کلاً کار کردن در حوزه‌ی تکنولوژی ــ در کشوری مثل ایران، واقعاً از سخت‌ترین انتخاب‌هاست. سال‌ها با این جمله‌ی کلیشه‌ای که «آدم توی محدودیت‌ها ستاره می‌شه» خودمون رو قانع کردیم و چشم‌هامون رو روی خیلی از واقعیت‌ها بستیم.

اما واقعاً منظور از ستاره شدن چی بود؟
اینکه برای دیدن ۵ دقیقه ویدئو توی یوتیوب، یک ساعت درگیر پروکسی، VPN، تانل و هزار و یک داستان و کوفت و زهرمار باشی؟
اینکه به اینترنت آزاد دسترسی نداشته باشی؟
اینکه دستت از شبکه‌های پرداخت بین‌المللی کوتاه باشه؟

ولی واقعاً لازم بود مادربزرگ من تو این سن دنبال سرور خارجی و کانفیگ باشه؟ 🙃

گاهی که به گذشته فکر می‌کنم، می‌بینم برای رد شدن از بعضی بن‌بست‌ها و محدودیت‌ها، چه ترفندهایی که نزدم. تازه الان می‌فهمم اون موقع‌ها چقدر پشتکار و صبوری خرج کردم. چقدر علاقه داشتم که حاضر بودم برای چند دقیقه یاد گرفتن، ساعت‌ها با فیلترینگ و محدودیت بجنگم.
مطمئنم خیلی از شما هم تجربه‌های مشابهی داشتید؛
چه در نرم‌افزار، چه در صنف‌ها و شغل‌های دیگه.

و در آخر، فقط اینو می‌خوام یادآوری کنم:

به کم قانع نباشید.
به حقتون قانع باشید.
قبل از ورود به هر کاری، حق و حقوقمون رو بدونیم.

نور بر تاریکی پیروز است.

Rant and NSFW language ahead:

The number of opportunities I lost and I am actively losing because of being born on a specific geopolitical landscape is seriously perplexing to me

No good free trial, no real job opportunity, no path to exit unless you have money, which you can't get cause you didn't exit to have a real job, so your best chances are often wasting away for less than 1000 dollar a month (and that is, super generous ones), while being an skilled worker, and if you are, off of a top echelon, and lucky enough to get inter-fucking-net, and not intra-fucking-net

Till another rant session, or maybe an episode on Iran experience for a developer/researcher in war, bye bye!

Some updates,
I read VeRA paper, I am halfway in DoRA paper, I also started HQQ paper

We gonna have some good Quantization and PEFT related episodes coming-up

But when, is a question only my internet and editor-aryan's pickiness and luck will answer

Btw, this truce has nothing to do with the Internet so I can't care less about it, I'm just glad I have electricity and that's right about it.

Nothing more to say, much love and take care y'all

I heard some news that this benchmark is faked, I cannot verify it as the best my internet can do at the moment is to open texts

But, I would put the link for you to verify and come to your own conclusions:

https://youtu.be/dCpEdmueKv0?si=gHm6kM9sFHGxMRwX

Holy Mother of Intelligence Density:
https://huggingface.co/Zyphra/ZAYA1-8B

Hello guys, we will have a surprise episode, as soon as I can edit it. (Un)fortunately, I am currenly un-unemployed and therefore, I cannot be that active here (which I never was to begin with anyways!), but its a low edit episode, I just need to ask for some snippets of code from sb ;)

The lowest hanging fruit is picked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlCoCfTDzMI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12825
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09573

Interesting tangents

Guess whose back?

Should I go for another episode team?