Moving Back to Bihar for a Week
A week away from the terminal, back home, where the only latency that matters is how long the tea takes.
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Why I Stopped Using PyTorch Lightning
Lightning abstracts the wrong things. Here is what I switched to and why the training loop is not the enemy.
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Building HiSLM: What Happens When You Try to Train a Language Model and Learn Everything the Hard Way
The first run crashed in 11 minutes. The second produced a confident but wrong model. The third was okay. Research is mostly the first two.
Continue reading →What Nobody Tells You About CS Until You Are Two Years In And It Is Too Late
The degree teaches algorithms. Industry wants system design. Professors want proofs. The internet wants React. None of these overlap.
Continue reading →What Happens When You Train a Toxicity Classifier on English Data and Ask It About Hindi-Hinglish?
It gets confused. Confidently. On the language bias gap in content moderation and why a billion speakers are an afterthought in most benchmarks.
Continue reading →We Asked an AI to Review Itself. It Gave Itself Five Stars. We Checked. It Deserved Four.
We asked the model to evaluate its own capabilities. It was enthusiastic. It was thorough. It was wrong about three things.
Continue reading →My Internship Performance Review Said I 'Show Initiative.' They Meant This As A Warning.
I pushed a fix to production on day three. My manager called it 'proactive.' The on-call engineer used different words.
Continue reading →I Read 200 ML Paper Titles. Apparently Everything Is Now 'Towards' Something.
Towards a More Scalable Framework for Towards Something. A survey of how the field communicates breakthroughs it hasn't quite made yet.
Continue reading →A Field Guide to Surviving a 48-Hour Hackathon Without Losing Your Sense of Self
Hour 1: You have a great idea. Hour 12: You have a different idea. Hour 36: You have a pivot. Hour 47: You have a demo button that doesn't do anything.
Continue reading →npm install: The Civilizational Threat We Agreed To Normalize
You wanted to center a div. You now have 847 packages. One of them is lodash. You needed to check if a number was odd.
Continue reading →I Spent 30 Days Doing Everything LinkedIn Influencers Told Me To Do. I Am Now Unemployed And Deeply Spiritual.
Wake up at 4am. Cold shower. Read 47 books. Network. Drink water. Hustle. Repeat. An investigation into whether any of this is real.
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