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Posts in 2025

  • $The Agentic AI Hype

    The Overhyped Buzzword That’s Just AI With To-Do Lists.

    bee sketch
  • $Embedding Selection for RAG Systems

    At the heart of every effective RAG implementation lies a crucial decision: which embedding model to use.

    cubes sketch
  • $Diffusion Based Language Models

    Instead of writing sequentially, DLMs start with something like noisy or scrambled text and gradually denoise it over several steps.

    small drawings of different things
  • $Avoiding Stack Overflows with Trampoline Functions

    When you can't tail call, you need to trampoline your way out in TypeScript to handle deep recursion without hitting stack overflow errors.

    trampoline sketch
  • $Quantum Resistance: Standing Strong Against Future Threats

    Do we already have quantum-resistant encryption?

    cpu drawing
  • $Understanding the K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) Algorithm

    A simple yet effective machine learning algorithm for classification and regression.

    K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
  • $Will Quantum Computers Make Encryption Obsolete?

    Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) refers to cryptographic systems designed to resist attacks from quantum computers.

    letters
  • $Origins of Quantum Computing

    I finally had the question: Whose idea was it in the first place?

    feynman article
  • $Semantic vs Lexical Similarity

    Semantic similarity and lexical similarity are two distinct ways of comparing text, with the key difference being meaning versus surface-level features.

    letters
  • $Error Correction in Quantum Chips

    Recent advancements in quantum computing have converged on error correction as the critical path to practical, fault-tolerant systems.

    cpu