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Sandeep
Reddy Mamidi

I build things, think out loud, and share what I learn — projects, writing, the occasional video, and whatever else is on my mind. Based in Nashville. By day, an AI & DevOps engineer. Outside of that, I like listening to audiobooks and traveling.

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August 13, 20262 min read

Sunsets at Lake Monroe: A Summer on the Sanford Waterfront

A summer 2026 collection of sunset and dusk photographs from the Lake Monroe waterfront in Sanford, Florida — curving walkways, lit lampposts, palm silhouettes, and calm water under dramatic skies.

#photography#sunset#Lake Monroe#Sanford#Florida

July 6, 20268 min read

From Character Soup to Instruction-Following: Building a GPT from Scratch on a 16GB Laptop

I built a language model from scratch on an M1 Pro MacBook — char-level GPT to subword tokenization to real web data to a 51M-param model to instruction tuning. Here's the whole journey, the numbers, and the honest lessons about what a laptop can (and can't) do.

#ai#llm#pytorch#machine-learning#from-scratch

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