Journal

thinking out loud — The Blog

Notes on machine learning, retrieval systems, MLOps and building software in public. Written while I figure it out, not after.

Learning in public, and what four years of it actually taught me

On building things slightly beyond your ability, competing without expecting to win, and why the unfinished projects still counted.

A language model that has read your PDF is very different from one that is guessing about it. Notes from building a conversational retrieval system.

"It works on my machine" is not a deployment strategy. What I learned putting a machine learning project inside a container for the first time.