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Articles by Liam Chen
2 articles.
The arithmetic of attention: why FlashAttention still matters
Inference & ServingMemory bandwidth, not FLOPs, is what bounds modern inference. A walk through the numbers behind a kernel that quietly reshaped the field.
Nov 12, 2026 14 min
The four evals that matter (and the dozen that don't)
EvaluationWe have too many benchmarks and too few signals. A framework for choosing evaluations that correlate with the thing you actually care about.
Jul 22, 2026 13 min