TL;DR: I built a classifieds app for Hot Wheels collectors. Validated the problem, ran pilots, launched — and it died quietly from lack of critical mass. This is about doing everything “right” and ...

Review of all the books I read in 2025.

And What We Actually Know About Knowledge

TL;DR: Yoshua Bengio’s 2003 paper “A Neural Probabilistic Language Model” is the Genesis of modern NLP. Before this paper, language models were statistical counting machines. After it, they became ...

Review of all the books I read in 2024.

ICVGIP 2024 • DOI Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) is the task of finding the specific timestamp in a video that corresponds to a natural language query. You search “the part where they explain the ...

Talk Trois Log

The standard introductory distinction: semantics is what a sentence means; pragmatics is what a speaker means by saying it. “I’m cold” means there is a person and they are experiencing low tempera...

What does it mean to be a JEE dropper? You are 18 or 19 years old. You are not a student — no institution claims you. You are not working. You are preparing for an exam that will, in theory, determ...

Assassin’s Creed’s central philosophical claim — nothing is true, everything is permitted — is one of the more genuinely interesting premises in mainstream gaming. It’s a denial of natural social o...