/tags/tau/Recent content in Tau onHugoenMon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000/weekly/2026-w26/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000/weekly/2026-w26/<p>June 29 — July 5, 2026</p> <h2 class="heading" id="this-week"> This week <a href="#this-week">#</a> </h2> <ul> <li>Revived this site as a public record of a 6-month research engineering trajectory.</li> <li>Settled on a structure: transformers + LLM inference + efficient kernels as the core trunk; agents, SOTA papers, and TypeScript literacy as satellites.</li> <li>Blocked study time on the calendar for the next 8 weeks.</li> <li>Started a living note to track direction: <a href="/projects/research-engineer-trajectory/">Research Engineer Trajectory</a>.</li> </ul> <h2 class="heading" id="up-next"> Up next <a href="#up-next">#</a> </h2> <ul> <li>Read the Word2Vec paper and understand CBOW / skip-gram / negative sampling.</li> <li>Implement Word2Vec from scratch in NumPy or raw PyTorch.</li> <li>Explore <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/tau">Tau</a> as a Python agent harness for MVF work.</li> </ul> <h2 class="heading" id="open-questions"> Open questions <a href="#open-questions">#</a> </h2> <ul> <li>What part of the transformer/inference stack lights me up most as I go deeper?</li> <li>How much focused work can I realistically get from the 3–7pm weekday blocks?</li> </ul>