docs: upstream building slowtorch doc to remote

Signed-off-by: Akshay Mestry <[email protected]>

Author: xames3

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .. Author: Akshay Mestry <[email protected]>
 .. Created on: Saturday, February 22, 2025
-.. Last updated on: Friday, April 18 2025
+.. Last updated on: Sunday, April 20 2025
 
 :orphan:
 :og:title: Studying, Mentorship, And Resourceful Teaching
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ My Studying, Mentorship, And Resourceful Teaching Journey
 .. rst-class:: lead
 
    Harnessing Studying, Mentorship, And Resourceful Teaching to drive
-   innovation |dash| now that's SMART!
+   innovation. Okay... now that's SMART!
 
 Hello hello!
 
-I'm **Akshay** (/uh-k-ʃ-æ/), an AI Engineer, student researcher, and an
-educator dedicated to the intersection of technology and learning. This corner
-of the internet serves both as a digital portfolio, showcasing my work, and a
-space where I share my learning and teaching experiences in the fields of
-Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Scientific Computing, and Open
-Science.
+I'm **Akshay** (/uh-k-ʃ-æ/), an Adjunct Professor at National Louis University,
+AI Engineer, and open-source contributor dedicated to the intersection of
+technology and learning. This corner of the internet serves both as a digital
+portfolio, showcasing my work, and a space where I share my learning and
+teaching experiences in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Software
+Development, Scientific Computing, and Open Science.
 
 Whilst most of my work revolves around building tools that push the boundaries
 of technology while keeping accessibility in mind, I've a special interest in
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ which I've explored through my personal projects. I'm also committed to
 contributing to the `NASA Open Science`_ mission, promoting transparent,
 reproducible, and inclusive research.
 
-With Open science, I often do Open Source |dash| which to me, is more than a
+With Open science, I often do Open Source. For me, it is more than a
 philosophy. It's my personal reminder to make my learnings, experiences, and
 knowledge free and accessible, breaking down the cultural and digital barriers
 and inviting collaboration across disciplines and borders.
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ education. Some key highlights of my projects include:
   researchers alike. These were created as educational tools for scientific
   computing.
 
-  Read more about my journey of :doc:`building xsNumPy <projects/xsnumpy>`.
+  Read more about my journey of :doc:`building xsNumPy <projects/xsnumpy>` and
+  :doc:`SlowTorch <projects/slowtorch>` |chvrn|
 
 - **Reinforcement Learning.** An AI-driven Snake game including the environment
   built in `Pygame`_, featuring a modular agent and optimised reinforcement
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ sharing ideas, and helping others grow alongside me.
     :hidden:
 
     projects/xsnumpy
+    projects/slowtorch
 
 .. toctree::
     :caption: Teaching

docs/source/projects/slowtorch.rst

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+.. Author: Akshay Mestry <[email protected]>
+.. Created on: Friday, April 18 2025
+.. Last updated on: Saturday, April 19 2025
+
+:og:title: Slow Burning Torch
+:og:description: PyTorch taught me how to build while SlowTorch taught me how
+    it's built.
+:og:type: article
+
+.. _project-slow-burning-torch:
+
+===============================================================================
+Slow Burning Torch
+===============================================================================
+
+.. author::
+    :name: Akshay Mestry
+    :email: [email protected]
+    :about: National Louis University
+    :avatar: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/90549089?v=4
+    :github: https://github.com/xames3
+    :linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/xames3
+    :timestamp: Apr 18, 2025
+
+.. rst-class:: lead
+
+    Speed is for production, serving machines while slowness is for humans,
+    for understanding
+
+So, it all started on a quiet afternoon in early January of 2025, just after I
+wrapped up :doc:`xsNumPy <./xsnumpy>`. I was still basking in the glow of
+having finally built `NumPy`_ (at least a fraction of it) from scratch to
+demystify how array operations worked. It was a project born out of curiosity.
+I didn't want performance, nor did I care. I just wanted to understand. And as
+I was pushing the final commit to the repository, I felt two things very
+clearly:
+
+- Relief, because rewriting |xp.ndarray|_ and debugging the broadcasting logic
+  from first principles is as mentally taxing as it is rewarding
+- Restlessness, because once you've peeled back the curtain on one big library,
+  you start seeing others in a whole new light
+
+Rewriting NumPy had shown me the power of writing slow code to understand fast
+abstractions. Now, I wanted to take that same approach to something I'd been
+using for over half a decade, `PyTorch`_.
+
+.. _rewriting-pytorch-badly-on-purpose:
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Rewriting PyTorch Badly, On Purpose
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Now, I've been working with PyTorch since 2018, back when
+:py:class:`torch.nn.Sequential` felt like magic and
+:py:meth:`torch.Tensor.backward` method seemed to compute gradients by
+sorcery.
+
+.. _NumPy: https://numpy.org/
+.. |xp.ndarray| replace:: ``xsnumpy.ndarray``
+.. _xp.ndarray: https://github.com/xames3/xsnumpy/blob/
+    69c302ccdd594f1d8f0c51dbe16346232c39047f/xsnumpy/_core.py#L183
+.. _PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/