§ 3.0 — OBSERVATIONS

Writing

Notes at the intersection of ML and design. Thinking out loud. Unfinished is fine.

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Why loss functions and visual hierarchy are the same problem

Both ask: what matters most, and by how much? The math differs, the intuition doesn't. An essay on the unexpected overlap between optimization and design.

essayml + design

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Attention is just weighted memory - and memory is everything

A non-technical explanation of self-attention using the metaphor of how humans read a sentence. Written to understand it myself first.

explainernlp

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Taste is the rarest skill in machine learning

Technical skill is table stakes. What separates great ML work from good ML work is judgment - and judgment is just taste applied to data.

opinioncareer

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On building things that think and feel [working title]

Notes accumulating. Not ready yet.

draft