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Mostly about evaluation — how you find out whether a system works, and why a single number usually cannot tell you.

When Your Metrics Disagree: Evaluating Saliency Models on ASD and TD Fixation Data

18 Nov 2025 · 7 min
Four standard saliency metrics ranked the same three models differently on ASD and TD fixation maps, and the disagreement turned out to be the finding rather than the noise.
  • Research
  • Computer Vision
  • Evaluation

Shipping RAG That Survives Contact With Real Users

26 Aug 2025 · 8 min
A retrieval-augmented demo and a retrieval-augmented service fail in different ways, and most of the engineering work lives in the gap between them.
  • RAG
  • Engineering
  • Evaluation

What Building sIndeX Taught Me About Handing Over Code

12 Jun 2024 · 6 min
sIndeX started as a script to automate my own repetitive SEO analysis, and the acquisition taught me that undocumented knowledge is a liability with a price attached.
  • Building
  • Career