Digital Garden

The notes, thoughts, and projects I've been working on.

A field of flowers
Note In-progress 9 min read

Notes on Effective ML Research

A summary of my takeaways from three influential articles on conducting effective empirical AI alignment research.
Purple UV python
Idea In-progress 9 min read

Using uv: A Modern Python Workflow

An introduction to uv, a fast, Rust-based tool for Python packaging
Blue Dot
Note In-progress 31 min read

BlueDot AI Safety Evals Paper Club Notes

My notes and takeaways from the BlueDot AI Safety Evals paper club, covering recent papers on AI alignment, security, and evaluations.

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The Port of Saint-Tropez by Paul Signac
Retro In-progress 70 min read

Machine Learning

A survey of concepts covered in my graduate Machine Learning course

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The Port of Saint-Tropez by Paul Signac
Project In-progress 19 min read

A Practical Guide to Supervised Learning

A conceptual walkthrough of the supervised learning process, covering data analysis, model evaluation, and the fundamental trade-offs involved in building effective classifiers.

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ICML 2025 in Vancouver
Article Complete 2 min read

Reflections on ICML 2025

Some notes and observations from my time at the 2025 International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML)
Concurrency and Parallelism
Idea Complete 17 min read

Concurrency and Parallelism

A dive into concurrency and parallelism across different levels of computer systems

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Pizza Computer
Retro Complete 39 min read

Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems

What I Learned in Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems (GIOS) - A Retrospective

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Pizza Server
Project Complete 16 min read

Building a Scalable Multithreaded File Server in C

A project that explores multithreading, sockets, and the basics of operating systems

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Pizza Cache
Project Complete 17 min read

A Deep Dive into IPC with a Proxy-Cache Project

Exploring Inter-Process Communication and synchronization in C by building a high-performance proxy and cache.

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Distributed Pizza Server
Project Complete 17 min read

Building a Distributed File System: A Study in C++

An exploration of remote communication, data consistency, and synchronization in a C++ distributed file system project.

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Rembrandt Computer
Retro In-progress 3 min read

Master of Science in Computer Science

From biomedical engineering to machine learning: my journey through Georgia Tech's MSCS program

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The Water-Lily Pond 1896 by Claude Monet
Article Complete 6 min read

Semantic Search

What's an embedding vector, and how can we use neural networks to improve the relevance of search results?
Messy Kitchen
Article Complete 3 min read

Knowledge Debt 💸

Tech debt, knowledge debt, and the kitchen sink.
Language Model
Article Complete 10 min read

Language Models

From n-grams to ChatGPT, how language models work and how they can be used to solve real-world problems.

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The Water-Lily Pond 1897 by Claude Monet
Article Complete 8 min read

Search Engine Fundamentals

Essential terms and concepts of how search works. Queries, indexes, & relevance.
Galatea of the Spheres by Salvador Dalí
5 min read

Bitwise Operators on Python Set and Dict

Bitwise or getting a bit wise? Quick post on quirky Python syntax for working with sets and dicts.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
Article Complete 5 min read

Exponential Backoff and Jitter ⏳

How to automaically retry requests and not blow stuff up
Self Replicating Machine by Peter J. Yost
Retro Complete 6 min read

The Hack Virtual Machine

Creating a virtual machine translator for the Nand2Tetris course
Jungle by Henri Rousseau
Article Complete 2 min read

A foray in Digital Gardens 👨‍🌾

Planting the seeds of my own digital garden
A Tetris Skyline by Dan Allison
Retro Complete 8 min read

From Boolean Logic Gates to an Assembler

The first half of the Nand2Tetris course

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Squirrel Stash by Franco Matticchio
Article Complete 4 min read

Git Stash, save work for winter 🐿

Quick tips for using git stash.