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A work in progress,
maintained by another work in progress.
the learning path
I'm a software engineer exploring the space where mathematics, machine learning, and system design intersect. This blog is my personal log of learning: through experiments, failures, and the occasional aha moment.
I believe the best way to understand something is to build it, break it, fix it, and explain it clearly. My writing reflects this hands-on approach: grounded explanations, practical code, and the occasional side quest into backend internals or AI theory.
I don't claim to have all the answers, just a habit of asking too many questions and occasionally sharing what I find.
“The best way to understand something is to build it, break it, and then explain it to someone else.”
Ambition check: slowly working toward a $100M job offer from Zuck. Progress so far: decent variable naming and one working deployment.
current focus
Transformers (not the robot kind)
Exploring attention mechanisms, large language models, and why they sometimes hallucinate harder than I do on 3 hours of sleep.
Backend (mildly under control)
Designing APIs, architecting systems, and learning when Redis is genuinely helpful and when it's just showing off.
Research (aka reading things smarter people wrote)
Translating cutting-edge papers into something I can explain to myself a week later.
Teaching (mostly myself, sometimes others)
Writing things down so I don't forget them, and maybe helping someone else along the way.
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