Notes on model-building, engineering practice, and what I learned while shipping things that were hard enough to matter.
- Zero to Hero - One
A plain-English walkthrough of embeddings, hidden layers, logits, loss, and backprop.
- Zero to Hero - Two
Why bad initialization breaks learning, and how Kaiming init and batch normalization keep the signal alive.
- My First Project
What building my first real full-stack app taught me about decomposition, realtime state, and avoiding style-first work.