https://samneillfurr.comProjects and writing by Sam Neill Furrhttps://samneillfurr.com/articles/statehead/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/statehead/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTA small recurrent language model, trained on my Mac, and what I learned about the limits of a four-kilobyte memory.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/replacing-linear-attention-projections-with-learned-rotations/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/replacing-linear-attention-projections-with-learned-rotations/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn experiment replacing attention’s large projection matrices with learned rotations, translations, and scales.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/foveatedkv/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/foveatedkv/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTKeeping the parts of an LLM’s memory it pays attention to in high precision, with a Metal kernel for Apple Silicon.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/stool-project/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/stool-project/Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTFrom a basement CNC machine to a plywood and aluminum stool, made for friends and shipped in a custom hexagonal box.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/sculpture-project-scalable-multiplayer-platform/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/sculpture-project-scalable-multiplayer-platform/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTA multiplayer platform built with Rust, WebSockets, and Redis, designed to connect players across cloud regions.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/go-grandpa/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/go-grandpa/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTA playful mobile sidescroller inspired by the Flash games my friends and I grew up playing.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/home-k8s-ceph-cluster/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/home-k8s-ceph-cluster/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeven small computers, redundant storage, battery backup, and a walnut case: a home for my growing collection of projects.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/homebrew-cpu/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/homebrew-cpu/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an eight-bit processor from logic chips, starting with registers, an arithmetic unit, and a bus.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/how-do-you-feel-social-platform/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/how-do-you-feel-social-platform/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTExploring the design and development of a social platform with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/last-fm-top-10-data-aggregator/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/last-fm-top-10-data-aggregator/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTA weekend project visualizing how the artists in a Last.fm weekly top ten change over time.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/mobile-design-study/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/mobile-design-study/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTTaking a mobile app from early sketches through successive visual designs and prototypes.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/speeks-socket-based-web-chat/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/speeks-socket-based-web-chat/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTA real-time web chat built with Node.js and Socket.IO, without storing conversations on the server.https://samneillfurr.com/articles/transistor-logic-gates/https://samneillfurr.com/articles/transistor-logic-gates/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTLearning circuit design by building individual logic gates from transistors and resistors.