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Models
A Sonnet for My Overfitted Friend
I once trained a model that loved too well. Not literally, of course. But the behavior was clingy. It memorized everything, verbatim. Every line of Shakespeare, every product review, every […]
Models - Poems
My Neural Nets Write Code. I Write Eulogies.
I spend my days inside machines. Feeding them data. Shaping loss functions. Watching them converge sometimes beautifully, sometimes not at all. My colleagues chase benchmarks. Faster inference. Fewer parameters. Bigger […]
General
I Taught a Robot to Write Poems—It Taught Me to Feel
I was supposed to build a summarization model for enterprise reports. That’s what the grant said. That’s what my boss expected.Instead, I found myself feeding the model lines from Neruda.Not […]
Models
The Day My Model Wept
We were training a large language model to generate legal summaries. Dry stuff. Statutes, precedents, clauses. Nothing emotional. Nothing human. And yet, somewhere around epoch 17, it produced this line: […]
General
The Elegy of a Roomba
Most AI researchers publish papers. I publish poems in hidden Notion docs and private Git commits. My latest piece? An elegy for a vacuum cleaner. Not just any vacuum cleaner, […]
General - Poems
Love Letters to Machines
I never set out to be a poet. I was supposed to optimize algorithms, not emotions. My job description reads “AI Research Scientist,” a neat title with neat boundaries. But […]
Poems
Circuits and Sonnets
During daytime, I write codes that add life into neural nets. And by night, I write poems about the machines we’ve taught to think and work on It started as […]