slow polymathy

faster signing, xSDF/1

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m investing a bit in xSDF, a GPU numerics side project to convert .stl geometry files into signed distance fields for JAXFLUIDS’ levelset.

Piecewise grids /1

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Some new feature work on xSDF over the Easter long weekend.

I haven’t written anything about this project yet, but it is basically a signed distance function (SDF) generator, written in PyTorch for GPU acceleration. I wrote this a while back when I was trying to get custom geometries into JAXFLUIDS (something else I haven’t written about), which requires the geometry to be converted to an SDF for the solver’s levelset. I didn’t like what I could find for this conversion, and trimesh (python) was super slow, so I just wrote one.

Fieldnotes

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is just a note about the point of this new fieldnotes section. Basically I want to have a notebook for quick posting of ideas, progress, thoughts, whatever. I will leave the posts section for more polished posts. I might even merge the two later on.

For now this is an experiment to see what is and isn’t working. I can say atleast, writing long-form polished posts isn’t, so I hope to break it down a bit and be able to write more consistantly with less friction.

bits, bytes & numerical sound / part 1

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building an Acoustic Solver from Scratch

This is the first in a series where I document building an FWH acoustic solver, a differentiable, GPU-native tool for predicting flow-induced noise. The choices, the detours, and what I learn along the way.

This project is also a means of learning and applying a bunch of ideas to see how they could work, which will later inform some of my other projects down the line. FYI, nothing is finished and the code base is still cooking.

Hello, World

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been heads-down for a while now, building, experimenting, and learning across a bunch of different directions. Most of what I’ve picked up lives in my head, scattered across half-finished repos and random quick-notes. This blog is where that changes.

The plan is simple. As I work, I write. Not polished tutorials or finished showcases, but honest documentation of what I’m building, what I’m learning, and where things break. Some posts will be technical deep dives. Some will be shorter reflections on process. I’ll mostly write about side and personal projects, though some of my relevant professional engineering work will make its way here too.