Visual Notes

Self-contained technical diagrams and infographics on ML, systems, and software.

by Vinny DeGenova

Mar 21, 2026
Your Eval Score Is a Guess
Why point estimates are dangerous for AI evals and how confidence intervals should be the standard for anyone measuring agentic system performance.
Mar 1, 2026
AMA-Bench: Why Your Agent's Memory Is Broken
The first benchmark targeting long-horizon agentic memory. Spoiler: every existing memory system underperforms simply extending the context window.
Feb 21, 2026
SLMs vs LLMs: Sizing Models in a Fast-Moving Landscape
New models ship weekly and MoE makes parameter counts misleading. A guide to knowing when to go small, go big, or route between both.
Feb 20, 2026
SEQUOIA: Optimal Token Trees for Speculative Decoding
How dynamic programming finds the perfect speculation tree shape for 4–10x faster LLM inference.
Feb 20, 2026
GEPA: Prompt Optimization Beyond Blind Reward
How Genetic-Pareto optimization achieves 35x efficiency over RL by reading execution traces.
Feb 19, 2026
How Attention Is Evolving
From quadratic self-attention to hybrid routing — visualizing the design space.