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+title: Essay on a DSL or HPC adjacent Problem
+date: 2025-08-26
+categories: [Assignments] # Optional, up to two categories
+tags: [Writing] # Optional, zero to infinite tags
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+Write an essay about a problem you've been thinking about. Don't write about the solution until the very end. Structure your essay as an introduction to a paper. The goal of the essay is for you to find and formulate a problem relevant to this course (in a very broad sense) that matters to you personally. The essay should be 3 ish pages, following the style guide of an "introduction" section in [CGO's submission template](https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). It should not propose a solution until the end. The beginning should focus on a programming problem and its properties. Take a look at the [MIT EECS Commkit](https://mitcommlab.mit.edu/eecs/commkit/journal-article-introduction/) on writing an introduction. I will grade based on whether you provide an abstract, motivate the problem, provide adequate background and related work, explain the utility of your (potentially made-up) solution, and describe 3 novel "contributions" in a contributions statement at the end. I won't be picky about how "good" each section is, I'm just checking for whether it's present.

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 ## Assignments
 
 There will be three assignments:
-1. Write an essay about a problem you've been thinking about. Don't write about the solution until the very end. Structure your essay as an introduction to a paper.
+1. [Write an essay about a problem you've been thinking about.](_posts/2025-08-26-assignment1.md)
 2. Write a compiler for APL. We'll likely have options for whether you wish to compile to c or to llvm.
 3. An assignment involving writing Halide schedules.