Tiny Recusive Models
A paper overview
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Ilia Ilmer
Writing about algorithms, systems, implementation details, and the parts of software work worth keeping around.
Latest posts
Projects, technical ideas, and implementation notes.
Union-Find
Implementing a disjoint-set union (Union-Find) data structure
My tech stack for 2026
Tools I will (continue to) use in 2026
Learning Category Theory with Rust
Putting fun into functors! (But only working with morhphisms)
CHIP-8 Emulator
In which I attempt to explore CPU emulation
Flow Matching Update
I almost gave up but decided to come back to images and flows
Learning Byte Pair Encoding
I am trying to build a BPE tokenizer
Learning NCurses with C
I tried to make a TUI game in C
Journey into rust with books CLI tools
Learning Rust by building a CLI tool
Byte-Pair Encoding In C
Learning BPE by Implementing it in C