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Vinay Danepalli

Software developer. Learning AI in public.

This is where I publish what I learn: notes and worked assignments, in case they save someone else time.

I wanted to be a scientist. I still spend too many nights looking up at the sky, and I still believe that with enough time and effort, anyone can learn anything.

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The sky over Corpus Christi.

01latest work

Fresh off the bench.

ERA V5 · S213 Oct 2026 Ten thousand tokens, four languages One 10,000-token BPE tokenizer for English, Hindi, Telugu and Maithili, with the fertilities equal to within 0.000005. score 199,839,981 · higher is better

02currently exploring

My own constellation.

Five topics I keep coming back to, named the way astronomers name stars: α is the brightest.

  1. Agentic AIPlanning, tool use, memory, and how agents fail.

  2. LLM architectureFrom tokenization to inference.

  3. Computer visionConvolutions to vision transformers.

  4. Multimodal modelsText, image and audio in one model.

  5. AI & societyThe economics: who gains, who pays.

03courses

Ground school.

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04contact

Send a signal.

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