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Exploring the intersection of language, computation, and the work worth doing.
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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.
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.
On AI psychosis, the neuroscience of verbal input, and why chatbot validation is not the same as human friction.
A lightly edited conversation with Claude Opus 4.5 about career topology, neurobiology, and intellectual recovery.
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.
A candid reflection on gaming addiction, public achievement, and the hidden struggles behind external success.
Lessons learned from failed experiments, misguided assumptions, and productive errors in large language model research.
Exploring how to run modern AI models on consumer-grade laptops—what works, what doesn't, and why accessibility matters.
An honest look at AI coding assistants—the productivity gains, the limitations, and when human judgment still matters.
A deep dive into a single LeetCode problem—exploring the difference between memorizing solutions and understanding the underlying mathematics.
The untold story of mental health struggles in academia—what it cost to earn a master's degree from Georgia Tech.
A personal exploration of skill ceilings, execution barriers, and what 4,000 hours of practice can and cannot teach you.
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.
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.
Personal narrative on the gap between credentials and lived experience. What it means to be celebrated in one context and invisible in another.