Shorter than articles. More specific than journal entries.
This is where observations land before they become a proper position - AI and engineering concepts explained plainly, physics intuitions appearing in unexpected places, things that broke in an interesting way.
AI & Machine Learning
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The Black Box That Bothered Me Enough to Open It A mechanical engineer’s journey from intimidated ChatGPT user to understanding how LLMs actually work - attention mechanisms, embeddings, and why the failure modes are predictable once you see inside.
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Artificial Neural Network: The Building Block Nobody Explains Well What a neural network actually is, how backpropagation works, and why it’s both simpler and stranger than the hype suggests. Written for engineers who want the mechanism, not the marketing.
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AI – The Buzzword A rant on the gap between what AI is (statistical pattern matching) and what people claim it is (consciousness, AGI, the end of everything). The engineer’s skeptical take.