Writing

Notes from the lab: what I’m building and breaking lately, written the way I’d explain it to a friend.

Aug 10, 2026Machine Learning

Teaching machines to read pathogen genomes before they outsmart us

Antibiotic resistance could kill 10 million people a year by 2050. Requence fights back with k-mers, SNPs and SHAP values; here is why speed and interpretability is not optional in healthcare.

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Aug 20, 2025AI Engineering

How I built ExamAI: HyDE, hybrid search and a reranker that saved my GPA

My course notes were too messy for naive vector search. This is the build log of a RAG system that survived garbled PDFs: hypothetical document embeddings, BM25 hybrid search, and a cross-encoder reranker.

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