Writing
Mostly notes on systems and the work, plus the occasional detour into travel, finance, or whatever rabbit hole I fell into that week.
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Training a YOLO Model to Help Kids Do Math
How I built a custom ML pipeline to train a tile recognition model that runs entirely in the browser: from phone videos to real-time inference on iPad.
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Building This Site: Astro 5, Cloudflare Workers, and Why I Ditched the SPA
How I built my portfolio site with Astro 5 and Cloudflare Workers, and the architecture decisions behind every choice.
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WalkingPad P1 Review & Repair
A review of the KingSmith WalkingPad P1: how I chose it, what it's like to use, and how to fix it when it starts vibrating.
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Solo Traveling East Asia: A Retrospective
Reflections and tips from solo traveling Hong Kong, Taipei, and Japan with one backpack and no itinerary.
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React Native on M1: What Actually Fixed the Build
The M1 Mac broke every React Native build tool in 2022. Here's what actually worked.
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The Rebalancing Bonus: Improving Investment Returns with the Kelly Criterion
Exploring whether adaptive asset allocation based on the Kelly Criterion can improve long-term portfolio returns.
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Strategies for Effective Learning
Researching strategies for more effective learning, sourced from Make It Stick and a meta-study by the Association for Psychological Science.
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Categorizing Healthy Habits
A pragmatic, research-based attempt to identify habits that are significantly likely to be healthy.