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How I Reverse-Engineered a National Exam at 15 (And Predicted My Score to the Decimal)

A three-year research project executed by a teenager who refused to accept that geography was destiny — and who had modeled the system precisely enough to call his shot to the decimal.

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The Ratchet

AI is not the trigger for white-collar displacement. It is the ratchet that prevents the return. The jobs are not coming back—not because AI destroyed them, but because AI made their absence survivable.

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Words Are Not Soft

On AI psychosis, the neuroscience of verbal input, and why chatbot validation is not the same as human friction.

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How I Have Personal Conversations with Claude

A lightly edited conversation with Claude Opus 4.5 about career topology, neurobiology, and intellectual recovery.

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The Blue Collar Machine Learning Researcher: The Human API in the Aisle

On working as a human API in retail while building ML expertise—what happens when your day job is in the physical world while your mind stays in the technical one.

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The Quiet Addiction Behind My Public Success

A candid reflection on gaming addiction, public achievement, and the hidden struggles behind external success.

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The Most Useful Mistakes I Made in LLM Research

Lessons learned from failed experiments, misguided assumptions, and productive errors in large language model research.

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Doing AI on Old Hardware

Exploring how to run modern AI models on consumer-grade laptops—what works, what doesn't, and why accessibility matters.

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Cursor Fixed Everything… Until It Didn't

An honest look at AI coding assistants—the productivity gains, the limitations, and when human judgment still matters.

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The Curious Case of LeetCode 523: Memorize or Prove? I Chose to Learn

A deep dive into a single LeetCode problem—exploring the difference between memorizing solutions and understanding the underlying mathematics.

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Grad School Gave Me the Degree — and a Trauma Response

The untold story of mental health struggles in academia—what it cost to earn a master's degree from Georgia Tech.

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Why I Still Lose at Tekken — Even After 4,000 Hours

A personal exploration of skill ceilings, execution barriers, and what 4,000 hours of practice can and cannot teach you.

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What I Actually Worked On: NLP Research at the Intersection of Language, Geography, and Social Networks

A deep dive into my Georgia Tech research on Arabic ASR, Twitter POS tagging, dialectal word mining, and story generation—and where those ideas have gone since.

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What 5,000 Hours of Mastering Tekken Taught Me About AI Research

Autophenomenological analysis exploring parallels between competitive gaming mastery and pattern recognition in ML research. Examining whether the obsessive optimization that makes someone elite at fighting games relates to what makes someone effective at research.

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From Sudan to Silicon Valley: Beyond the Resume

Personal narrative on the gap between credentials and lived experience. What it means to be celebrated in one context and invisible in another.