Dopamine-Style Learning vs Regular Learning: Grid Pathfinding Benchmark
November 2, 2025

Dopamine-Style Learning vs Regular Learning: Grid Pathfinding Benchmark

Comparing adaptive learning rate (dopamine-inspired) against traditional fixed learning rate on a 2D grid pathfinding task with obstacles—exploring whether modulating learning rate by improvement signal helps long-term learning.

9 min read
Building Autograd From Scratch: Understanding Backpropagation
October 22, 2025

Building Autograd From Scratch: Understanding Backpropagation

Building a minimal automatic differentiation engine from first principles to truly understand how modern ML frameworks compute gradients and train models.

12 min read
What If Document Search Worked Like Navigation?
October 14, 2025

What If Document Search Worked Like Navigation?

GraphRAG uses entity extraction to build navigable graphs. What if we used embedding geometry instead? A speculative exploration of TDA for document retrieval.

8 min read
Recovering From AI Killing Your Coding Brain
October 13, 2025

Recovering From AI Killing Your Coding Brain

How to recover from AI dependency by believing in your coding abilities and reading code instead of relying on AI assistance.

6 min read
More Data: JEPA as a Learning Attachment for LLMs
September 18, 2025

More Data: JEPA as a Learning Attachment for LLMs

An experimental approach using JEPA Attach to test whether Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures can help Large Language Models learn from abundant multimodal data when high quality text becomes scarce.

15 min read
Building Ambient AI For Teams
June 18, 2025

Building Ambient AI For Teams

How we instrumented Sammy 3 to feel like a teammate that sees context, speaks naturally, and acts faster than humans.

4 min read
Shipping AI Products That Don't Suck
June 15, 2025

Shipping AI Products That Don't Suck

Lessons learned building AI features that users actually want to use—avoiding the trap of building cool tech instead of solving real problems.

10 min read