Garden
18Thinking out loud about machines, meaning, and the mess in between.
I write to understand the things I can't stop thinking about. Most of it still half-formed, slowly growing. Wander in.
On AI Writing: What Matters Is Intent
June 2026
Six months into 2026: the end of my MSR fellowship, why I'm starting up, and a summer with mom.
Man-Made Wealth
Money is entirely a human invention, so hoarding it can't be richness. A reflection on what it actually means to be rich.
Five Greek Myths from a Paphos Mosaic Floor
Five Greek myths I picked up while walking through the House of Dionysus in Paphos, Cyprus.
Exposing Weak Links in Multi-Agent Systems
3 weeks ago A Paper, A Passport, and A Lesson in Over-Relying on AI
VISA chaos, Singapore wedding, and a lesson in not blindly trusting AI
Agents to Anatomy — My MSR Exit Talk
About 1 month ago 
Why This, What That
We invent reasons because having no reason is psychologically unbearable. But the reason is unknowable, and what is unknowable is unusable. Focus on the process instead.
Rationalization Machines, But I Don't Care About Your Rational
A simple criterion for distinguishing good people from bad people — and why the 'why' doesn't matter.
Using Agents and Skills
Over 3 months ago Navigating the Koramangala Club Scene
Practical mechanics for a night out in Koramangala — cover charges, dance-floor rules, food, transit, and what it costs.
Looking Back on the POSCO GYP Program
Looking back on ten months as a POSCO GYP scholar at POSTECH in Pohang, South Korea.
Transformer Activation Functions and their Details
Revisiting Activation Functions in Pytorch and their details
Understanding Andrejs Tokenizer Video
Decoding details from Andrejs video on Tokenizer
My TOEFL preperation Notes
My personal notes, tips and tricks for TOEFL iBT
The Math Behind FlashAttention
A focused walk through the mathematical subtleties of FlashAttention — the online-softmax trick and IO-aware tiling that make exact attention fast on GPUs.
My Mitacs Experience : Part 1
A practical guide to the Mitacs Globalink application — timelines, recommendation letters, choosing referees, and the logistics of landing a research internship at UBC.
My Mitacs Experience : Part 2
Lake Okanagan, a research project at UBC, and the quiet charm of Kelowna.