Technical publication

Writing that shows the work.

Experiments, field guides, and essays about how AI systems behave, where evaluations break, and what the results mean in practice.

9 entries in the current archive
Engineering essay

My Agent Signed Its Own Timesheet

An AI agent logged a tool call it never made. The fix was not a better instruction—it was a mechanical boundary with an independent record.

Agentic AIEvaluationReliability
8 min readRead article
Research case study

The Mistake My Network Refused to Fix

A neural-network debugging investigation into a model that kept repeating the same error, even after the obvious fix.

Neural NetworksDebuggingModel Evaluation
13 min readRead article
Performance study

The Fast Algorithm That Was 370 Times Slower

An empirical look at the difference between theoretical speed and real performance when implementation details take over.

AlgorithmsBenchmarkingEngineering
15 min readRead article
Research essay

When Washington Stopped Being a Person

A text-analysis investigation into how language, representation, and context change what a model believes a name means.

NLPEmbeddingsLanguage Models
14 min readRead article
Project case study

VerifAI: Teaching an AI to Check Its Sources in Two Languages

How I built and evaluated a bilingual, evidence-grounded question-answering system designed to distinguish retrieval from invention.

RAGBilingual NLPEvaluation
7 min readRead article
Technical essay

When AI Learns to Doubt Itself, Medicine Gets Safer

Why uncertainty is not a weakness in clinical AI, but a necessary signal for safer human judgment.

Clinical AIUncertaintyAI Safety
11 min readRead article
Empirical study

What Movies Mean to People: Content Embeddings vs. Behavioral Embeddings

A hands-on experiment comparing collaborative filtering and content-based embeddings on MovieLens-100k, and what the results reveal about how taste actually works.

EmbeddingsRecommender SystemsMovieLens
16 min readRead article
Data essay

Democracy in Data: What an Unsupervised Algorithm Found and Why It Matters Now

What unsupervised learning reveals about the structure of democracy, and where quantitative patterns need political context.

ClusteringDemocracyUnsupervised Learning
10 min readRead article
Interactive guide

Machine Learning Algorithms Every Data Scientist Must Know

A visual field guide to model families, learning paradigms, and the decisions that connect them.

Machine LearningAlgorithmsModel Selection
8 min readRead article