Jaden Mu

I like making computers smart and fast. Currently studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon with a focus in systems and machine learning.

A Ground-Up Guide to Optimizing Matrix Multiplication (from naive loops to beating OpenBLAS)

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Candid Takeaways and Useful Lessons from Training VLMs for Ophthalmology

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I’ve spent the past 3 months at my job fine-tuning vision language models to be better at analyzing ophthalmic imaging data. We initially expected quick and...

The Math Behind Asteroid Impact Prediction

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65 million years ago, the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. The Flat-o-saurs are like the dinosaurs, but they live on a 2D planet called plane-et (wh...

The Surprisingly Hard Problem of Polycube Enumeration

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In my Intro to Engineering class, we were tasked with designing a Megaron puzzle cube. A Megaron cube consists of 5 puzzle piece (each built out of some num...

What is Object Detection and how do R-CNN models do it?

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What is Object Detection You probably know what image classification is - a model takes an image with some kind of object and labels what the object is. Obj...