Kone Academy | Insights & Research https://academy.codkon.com/blog Pioneering research notes, system engineering breakthroughs, and curriculum announcements from the Kone Code, Lab, and School team. en-us philipkone45@gmail.com (Philip Hotor) philipkone45@gmail.com (Philip Hotor) Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:32:35 GMT https://academy.codkon.com/assets/blog/author_philip.webp Kone Academy https://academy.codkon.com/blog <![CDATA[Computational Thinking: The Art of Structured Logic]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/computational-thinking-structured-logic https://academy.codkon.com/blog/computational-thinking-structured-logic Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Physical AI: Connecting Code to Microcontrollers]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/physical-ai-microcontrollers-robotics https://academy.codkon.com/blog/physical-ai-microcontrollers-robotics Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Digital AI: Decoupling Large Language Models and Compute]]> 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and Memory Layout: Squeezing Peak Flops in C and Rust]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/cache-locality-memory-layout-c-rust https://academy.codkon.com/blog/cache-locality-memory-layout-c-rust Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Payment Channels: Verifiable Settlement with zk-SNARKs]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/zero-knowledge-proofs-payment-channels-zksnarks https://academy.codkon.com/blog/zero-knowledge-proofs-payment-channels-zksnarks Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Fine-Tuning SLMs on Consumer GPUs: A Deep Dive into LoRA and QLoRA]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/fine-tuning-slms-lora-qlora-consumer-gpus https://academy.codkon.com/blog/fine-tuning-slms-lora-qlora-consumer-gpus Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Mastering Embedded Concurrency: FreeRTOS Task Scheduling and Semaphore Design]]> https://academy.codkon.com/blog/rtos-freertos-task-scheduling-inter-task-synchronization 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