Part X: Frontier engineering
What engineers are building now, and the mathematics and code underneath it: drones that hold altitude, cars that follow a lane, and machines that run models fast.
- F00The frontier map: what engineers build now, and your route inDescribe the current work at Tesla, SpaceX, drone companies, and frontier AI labs from primary sources; find where each required skill is taught in this book; choose a first route that fits your background and flagship…
- F01Feedback control: derivatives that fly drones and steer cars12 exercisesExplain every term of a PID controller as a rate or an accumulation; predict steady-state error before simulating; handle motor limits without windup; derive pure-pursuit steering from one line of algebra; tune two controllers…
- F19Performance engineering on a parallel machine: bounds, VLIW packing, SIMD, and batched tree traversal10 exercisesCompute a critical-path bound and a resource bound for any kernel and say which one limits it; pack independent operations into VLIW bundles by list scheduling; vectorize across SIMD lanes; decide what to keep in scratch…