Field notes
Writing
Notes on AI systems and software engineering — what was built, what broke, and what the measurements said.
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Personal ·
Something That Matters to MeIf no one needed anything from me—and no one was there at all—would I still have something I wanted to do?
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Technical ·
Frozen Models Can Drift from Their Dataset HashesWhat a stored content hash protects in Pydantic v2, where shallow freezing falls short, and the measured cost of hashing a dataset twice.
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Technical ·
Building an Event-Driven AI MonorepoWhy treating AI microservices as async data pipelines — not REST call chains — solves the scaling problems monoliths can't
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Personal ·
Building in the OpenWhy I started this blog and what I hope to share — from ML research to personal reflections.
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Technical ·
Attention Is All You Need — ExplainedA deep dive into the transformer architecture that revolutionized NLP, computer vision, and everything in between.