Notes on practical AI, engineering and life

Lessons from a Decade of Document AI Work

ai
multimodal
document ai
ml systems
I’ve worked on document AI problems for about a decade. The business problem stayed mostly the same. The AI models, tools, and system design went through several paradigm…
Mar 31, 2026

A Tour of Deep Learning Optimizers

ai
deep learning
optimization
llm
Optimizers are the most consequential part of deep learning that most practitioners never examine closely. You pick one, set a few hyperparameters, and move on.
Feb 22, 2026

 

How to Build and Deploy MCP for Proprietary Data

ai
mcp
architecture
security
deployment
If you are building AI software for enterprise clients, the model is usually not the bottleneck. Data access is.
Feb 19, 2026

 

Coding Agents and a Spooky Kaggle Challenge: Benchmarking Lightweight ML Automation

ai
data science
coding agents
nlp
llm
Agentic ML tooling is having a moment. State-of-the-art systems like DeepMind’s MLE-STAR and Meta’s AIRA-dojo frequently place in the top 10% of Kaggle competitions on MLE-be…
Oct 30, 2025

Agentic Causal Inference

ai
llm
agentic
causal inference
Historians may one day mark the 2020s as the dawn of the machine age of sciences. Language models now draft proofs and experimental protocols; diffusion models fold proteins…
Jul 12, 2025

MiniSora: Learnings from training a Minimal Video Generation Model (Part 1)

generative ai
video generation
cost efficient training
scaling laws
In February 2024, OpenAI introduced SORA, a groundbreaking video generation model capable of creating high-resolution videos that look almost real. These videos exhibit 3D…
Oct 2, 2024
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Computer vision for soccer games

computer vision
ai
sports
soccer
I was intrigued to see this example where multiple (at least 5) computer vision techniques to create visual appealing analytics from soccer game footage. Soccer fans and…
Sep 15, 2024
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From Consumerism to Sustainability: AI’s Role in Shaping the Future of Economic Growth

economics
ai
environment
Since the advent of the free market, human society has experienced an unprecedented wave of growth and prosperity. Global GDP has increased 100-fold, with per-capita GDP…
Aug 25, 2024
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Deploying machine learning apps to Google Cloud Run with Github actions

code
mlops
GCP
cloud
Deploying ML models and other python apps to cloud can be tedious. Compute instances need to be provisioned; networking needs to be sorted out; autoscaling needs to be…
Aug 2, 2023
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