Archives
All the articles I've archived.
2026 3
July 1
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What a Data Engineer Misses About Transformers (Until You Build One)
I move data through pipelines for a living. Then I built the transformer stack from scratch, from autograd to attention. Five places my instincts pointed the wrong way, and three bugs that never crashed.
June 2
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Why I'm Spending 8 Weeks Building Toward Verifiable Clinical AI Environments
One clinical extraction environment, built once and reused three ways, as an evaluation suite, an RL reward signal, and a governance instrument. The plan, the constraints, and the rule that everything ships on Fridays.
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Four Days of RL: One Gradient, Dressed Four Ways
Bellman as a fixed-point computation, watching behavioral cloning fail on schedule, and why REINFORCE is the ancestor of everything in modern post-training. Notes from four days of foundations.