Reading and display settings

Appearance

System follows your operating system and keeps following it, even if you change it later. The header's sun, moon and monitor cycle the same three options.

Text size (%) 100%

Default. Scales every text size on the site, equations and tables included.

Reading width 70ch

How much text runs across one line of prose. Narrower is easier to track; wider fits more on screen.

Line spacing 1.6

The leading on body text. Taller leading helps a tired eye stay on the line.

Density

Padding and gaps around controls, cards, and tables — how much breathing room the layout leaves itself.

Motion

System follows your operating system. Reduced removes every transition on this site. Full keeps them on unless your system asks for less.
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About

What this site is, who keeps it, and how it is put together.

This site started as a single page tracking AI milestones. It now covers two very different kinds of writing, and they live in two repos.

The record

AI collects what happened and when — a history timeline, a product ship-log, benchmark score progressions, profiles of the labs, the papers behind the milestones, and quotes from the people involved. It is compiled from public model cards, technical reports and independent leaderboards; the sourcing caveats are noted on each page.

The field notes & the blog

Robotics holds tutorials on ROS and robot navigation, migrated from the Robotics At Once blog, in their original blog voice. The vision notes are their counterpart. Both feed the blog, which is where the informal, from-the-workbench writing lives — including new perspective pieces that do not belong to either subject.

The guides

The long interactive walkthroughs — LLM training and serving, building with LLMs, agents, generative media, multi-view geometry, nonlinear optimization, linear algebra, calculus, probability and statistics — now live in their own repo at denimpatel.github.io/interactive-courses. Nothing in them is a static diagram: the cameras drag, the tokenizer trains in your browser, the optimizer iterates when you step it. Each guide is built around one running example carried from the first part to the last. Older guide URLs on this site redirect there.

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Built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. No JavaScript frameworks and no build step beyond Jekyll itself — the interactive figures are hand-written canvas and vanilla JS, and the math is rendered with KaTeX. Page structure and every counter on the homepage are generated from data files in _data/, so the site cannot drift out of sync with itself. The guide part counts come from _data/guide_index.yml, which is regenerated from the guides repo by scripts/sync-guides.rb.

Denim Patel, M.S. Robotics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Source on GitHub.