Add generate_team.py script that reads .all-contributorsrc and generates
the team.md page automatically. This keeps the website team page in sync
with the README contributors.
- Add tinytorch/site/scripts/generate_team.py
- Update both deploy workflows to run the script before building
- Contributors added via @all-contributors now appear on the website
The script runs during site build, so team.md stays fresh with each deploy.
The formula sqrt(1/fan_in) is actually LeCun initialization (1998),
not Xavier/Glorot. True Xavier uses sqrt(2/(fan_in+fan_out)).
- Rename XAVIER_SCALE_FACTOR → INIT_SCALE_FACTOR
- Update all comments to say "LeCun-style initialization"
- Add note explaining difference between LeCun, Xavier, and He init
- Keep the simpler formula for pedagogical clarity
Fixes#1161
Slides were not loading on the live site because the PDFs exist in a
GitHub Release (tinytorch-slides-v0.1.0) but were never downloaded
during the build process. The .gitignore has *.pdf which prevents
slides from being committed to git.
Add a step to both deployment workflows to download all slide PDFs
from the release and inject them into _static/slides/ before deploy.
Fixesharvard-edge/cs249r_book#1162
AndreaMattiaGaravagn (truncated) and AndreaMattiaGaravagno were listed
as separate contributors. Merged into a single entry with the correct
username, avatar, and combined contributions (code + doc).
Students hit "No module named 'tinytorch.core.tensor'" in notebooks because
the Jupyter kernel used a different Python than where tinytorch was installed.
- setup: install ipykernel + nbdev, register named kernel during tito setup
- health: add Notebook Readiness checks (import, kernel, Python match)
- export: verify exported file exists and has content (fail loudly)
- Windows: add get_venv_bin_dir() helper for cross-platform venv paths
On PR events, github.ref_name resolves to the merge ref (e.g.
"1159/merge") which doesn't exist on raw.githubusercontent.com,
causing a 404. Use github.head_ref (the actual source branch)
for PRs, falling back to ref_name for push events.
Also adds -f flag to curl so HTTP errors fail immediately with
a clear message instead of silently saving the 404 HTML page.
Escape unescaped & characters in references.bib (Taylor & Francis,
AI & Machine-Learning) and replace Unicode em-dashes (U+2014) with
LaTeX --- ligatures in paper.tex for T1 font compatibility.
LLM now only parses username + contribution types (strict 2-field JSON).
Project detection is fully deterministic from file paths:
tinytorch/ → tinytorch, book/ → book, kits/ → kits, labs/ → labs
If project cannot be determined, the bot asks the user instead of
silently defaulting to book. Also removes @AndreaMattiaGaravagno
from book/.all-contributorsrc (was incorrectly added there by the
old workflow — their PR only touched tinytorch/ files).
The fresh install test script used / as the sed delimiter when
substituting the branch name, which breaks on any branch containing /
(e.g. feature/foo, fix/bar, or GitHub merge refs like 1156/merge).
Show the exact definition, tanh approximation, and sigmoid approximation
side by side so students understand where 1.702 comes from and why we
chose the sigmoid form. Avoids erf notation in favor of plain-language
description of Φ(x) appropriate for Module 2 students.
Related to harvard-edge/cs249r_book#1154
The hint claimed 1.702 comes from √(2/π) ≈ 0.798, which is incorrect.
The 1.702 constant is empirically fitted so that sigmoid(1.702x) ≈ Φ(x),
the Gaussian CDF. The √(2/π) constant appears in the separate tanh-based
GELU approximation, not the sigmoid approximation used here.
Fixesharvard-edge/cs249r_book#1154
- Clarify that attention time complexity is O(n²×d), not O(n²), since each
of the n² query-key pairs requires a d-dimensional dot product
- Fix Total Memory column in analyze_attention_memory_overhead() which was
duplicating the Optimizer column instead of summing all components
- Update KEY INSIGHT multiplier from 4x to 7x to match corrected total
Fixesharvard-edge/cs249r_book#1150
Fork PRs downgrade GITHUB_TOKEN to read-only, causing 403 when
applying labels. pull_request_target runs in the base repo context
and grants the declared write permissions.
Instead of a separate workflow, adds a 'site_only' boolean checkbox
to the existing Publish (Live) workflow. When checked:
- Skips version bump (pyproject.toml, badges, installer, announcement)
- Skips PDF generation
- Skips tag creation and GitHub Release
The build & deploy steps still run identically. One workflow, two modes.
Removes the previously added tinytorch-deploy-site-only.yml.
Adds a new workflow 'TinyTorch · 🌐 Deploy Site Only' for deploying
website content updates without triggering version bumps, tags, or
releases. Ideal for:
- Typo fixes
- Team page updates
- CSS/styling changes
- Documentation updates
Use 'Publish (Live)' for versioned releases, 'Deploy Site Only' for
quick website-only updates.
- Add new Team page featuring core staff and contributors
- Vijay Janapa Reddi (Nerdy Professor), Andrea Garavagno (Tech Lead),
Kari Janapareddi (Chief of Staff), Kai Kleinbard (Web Wizard)
- Display community staff side-by-side with fun role titles
- Move Acknowledgments to separate page for MiniTorch/micrograd credits
- Add contributor generator script for future automation
- Update navigation: Team → Ecosystem → Acknowledgments
Replace the slide download card with an inline PDF viewer using PDF.js:
- Change grid layout from 4 cards (2x2) to 3 cards in a row
- Add embedded slide viewer with navigation, zoom, and fullscreen
- Load slides from local _static/slides/ for reliable CORS handling
- Add "· AI-generated" subtitle to match audio card pattern
- Use 🔥 icon consistently across all viewers
Affected: 20 module ABOUT.md files + big-picture.md
