Blog
Opinion, algorithms, and the occasional loop — on politics, society, and building things that work.
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Why Can't I Read My Friend's ChatGPT History?
Does everyone get their own vector database? Mostly, no. How multi-tenant AI apps actually keep millions of users apart on one shared model and one shared index, where AI governance fits in, and the one missing WHERE clause that causes most real leaks. With a visualizer I built to watch it happen.
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It Learned Snake By Dying 85,000 Times
A DQN that never saw a rulebook — no avoid_wall(), no chase_food(), just +10 for food and -10 for dying. The checkpoint bug that silently rewound training, the instability fix, and the real capacity ceiling we hit after 85,000 games.
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How Embeddings Actually Work
Everyone says 'embeddings capture meaning' and moves on. Let's not move on. What a vector actually is, how you build one without OpenAI or HuggingFace, and why a vector database exists at all — with real numbers and a tool I built to actually see the space.
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Does Linking Vector Chunks Actually Help RAG?
A vector DB retrieves chunks with no memory of what came before or after them. I threaded prev/next pointers through one, like a linked list, and measured whether it was actually worth the extra tokens.
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How A Neural Network Actually Works
Everyone says 'it's just matrix multiplication' and moves on. Let's not move on. Nodes, weights, activations, forward pass, backprop, with actual numbers, end to end.
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How Patterns Quietly Run Everything
Finally, a techie blog. After weeks of algorithms and hypernationalism, let's go back to the thing that started all of it for most of us: two nested loops and a matrix.
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What Have You Given to Your Country?
Tax? Everyone pays that. I kept digging deeper and ended up at soldiers, bodyguards, and the one question most of us never ask ourselves.
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How Algorithms Quietly Built Our Hypernationalism
I spent a week feeding my own algorithm right-wing political content as an experiment. By the end of it, I was nodding along. Here's what's happening inside the recommendation engine.
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Every Ideology is a Form of Propaganda
I used to think politics had nothing to do with me. I was wrong but so is everyone who follows an ideology they never built themselves.
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