Tensorizing Micrograd in Rust

Taking the scalar autograd engine from the last post and making it hold matrices instead of single numbers, then watching it fall apart on MNIST until I fixed the weight init.

July 18, 2026 · 11 min · Issa AlBawwab

Building Micrograd from Scratch in Rust

Building a small scalar autograd engine in Rust from scratch, then using it to train a tiny neural network. Based on Karpathy’s micrograd.

July 10, 2026 · 12 min · Issa AlBawwab