JESSICA RUAN

Hello! I'm Jessica Ruan,

...but you can call me Jess if you'd like!

Depending on why you're here, you might want different things from me.

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icebreakers
"so what's your deal?"

Essays

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The Open Frontier 0.75/N: Chain of Thought Faithfulness via RickrollThe Open Frontier 0.5/N: I Probed an MoE Model and Mostly Just Learned How MoE WorksThe Open Frontier 0/N: Who, what, Qwen, and why?Inference Engines 3/N: Speculative DecodingInference Engines 2/N: Batching and PagedAttention+ 14 more in the archive

Fun

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⭒ 2025 Review and Lookahead: A "Graduation" Every 5 YearsElectric Catan at Opensauce 2026: In Which We Print a PCB and Then Some (By Which We Mean 59 More)Why Blog? Economics of Blub and The Small RoomFour Galette Fillings Are All You NeedThree Travel Times Are All You Need+ 3 more in the archive

Elsewhere

Q1: Why does this alt blog exist? · Q2: Why blog at all?

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