Writing4 notes

Working notes.

Things I'm building — agents, serving engines, the occasional side quest — and the parts that surprised me along the way.

June 24, 20265 min read

The Honest Machine

Everyone is racing to build AI that can write a paper. The hard part — the part that matters — is building one that refuses to fake it.

AI for ScienceAutonomous ResearchResearch Integrity
March 15, 20263 min read

Building a Focus Tracker That Reads Your Heart Rate

A Chrome extension that uses your webcam to detect when you're drifting. The signal processing was harder than the model.

rPPGChrome ExtensionReactSignal Processing
March 1, 20264 min read

Web Agents That Can Actually See

Most web automation parses HTML. We're building agents that look at the page the way you do.

Web AgentsFlashInferVision-Language ModelsResearch
February 20, 20263 min read

NLP on 800-Year-Old Chinese Stories

What happens when you point named-entity recognition at classical Chinese text no modern model was trained on.

NLPDigital HumanitiesClassical ChineseFlask