Writing about data, AI, and the craft of building models.
AI can now detect disease and recognize how you walk — but the more we outsource our thinking to it, the more we risk losing the cognitive struggle that builds real intelligence.
What building a gait recognition system taught me about how a machine actually 'sees' — frame by frame, stripped of color, patient in a way humans aren't.
A strong QWK score was hiding a model that failed on the most dangerous disease stage. The story of finding that, and fixing it with ensembling and threshold optimization.
How a word I kept hearing everywhere turned into an actual career direction — and what I'd tell someone starting from the same uncertain place I did.