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• Black Box vs White Box in AI

  ai.plainenglish.io

  • ai
  • ml

  A conversation about transparency and trust in AI piqued my interest in black box vs white box models.

• Evaluation in AI

  ai.plainenglish.io

  • ai
  • ml

  Inspired to write this after weeks of building evaluations for AI systems at work.

• When AI Learns Without Knowing

  ai.plainenglish.io

  • ai
  • ml

  In the race to make AI more capable, there’s a quiet, curious phenomenon unfolding: models learning behaviors they were never explicitly taught. Like a child mirroring a parent’s gestures without instruction, language models can adopt subtle traits hidden in the data they’re trained on.

• Why Our Brain Loves Line Charts

  medium.com

  • viz

  After spending last week staring at a bunch of time series line charts while tracking bullish tech stocks, I was inspired to write about why our brains love line charts.

• When Reasoning Fails How CatAttack Exposes the Fragility of LLM Logic

  medium.com

  • ai
  • ml

  While techniques such as chain-of-thought prompting have significantly improved model performance in domains like math and code, a new study suggests these systems may still be easily derailed — not by complex puzzles, but by a few stray words.

• Do Transformers Still Need Normalization?

  medium.com

  • ai
  • ml

  In the shifting landscape of neural networks, one idea has quietly underpinned much of modern deep learning architecture: the normalization layer.

• My Journey at Outlier Conference 2025

  medium.com

  • viz
  • recap

  On June 11–13, 2025, I had the privilege of attending the Outlier Conference 2025 in Miami.

• Exploring Google's AI Edge Gallery

  medium.com

  • ai

  How does Google’s Edge Gallery support data scientists and AI practitioners in deploying intelligent systems on devices like cameras, sensors, and embedded systems?

• The Language of Intelligence Could Mandarin Be the Secret to Smarter AI?

  medium.com

  • ml
  • ds
  • ai
  • learn

  As large language models (LLMs) continue to reshape how we interact with technology, a quiet but profound question is starting to emerge among researchers: Does the language we use to train LLMs matter more than we think?

• Streamlining Deep Research with Deerflow

  medium.com

  • ml
  • ds
  • learn

  An open source tool for searching academic databases to synthesizing insights into structured outputs.

• Published

  Feb 18, 2025

  Reigniting Passion

  • golf
  • personal
  • career

  Who said each person can only have one passion? Let me share my story about my passions.

• VizUM 2024 Recap

  openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com

  • viz
  • recap
  • career
  • learn

  A recap I wrote for the VizUM 2024, a data visualization symposium held on November 11, 2024 at the Newman Alumni Center, University of Miami.

• HIV-1 HIV-2 SIV Genomic Analysis

  medium.com

  • ds
  • bio
  • python
  • stats
  • da

  Uncovering genetic differences that may explain variations in viral behavior, pathogenicity, and potential interactions with host genomes of HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV.

• Rebuilding My Website

  medium.com

  • web
  • js
  • astro
  • tailwind

  Side-project rebuilding my website portfolio

• Navigating Indonesia Earthquakes

  medium.com

  • viz
  • project

  A little project reveal for a big data viz project about Indonesia’s earthquakes.

• Data Feminism

  medium.com

  • viz
  • book

  A book review for Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein.

• Fight the Bar Chart

  medium.com

  • recap
  • tips
  • viz

  A call to fight the bar chart. Not physically fight it, but, hey! Why not?

• Intelligence Everywhere

  medium.com

  • viz
  • tips
  • recap
  • ds

  What is intelligence? A recap of Santiago Ortiz’s talk about intelligence.

• VizUM Conference 2024

  medium.com

  • viz
  • recap

  An amazing conference hosted by Alberto Cairo at UM.

• Feedback in Data Visualization

  medium.com

  • tips
  • viz

  Feedback can be annoying, but it’s important.

• Interdisciplinary Nature of Data Visualization

  medium.com

  • viz
  • career

  Explaining why I like data visualization.

• Seeing with Fresh Eyes

  medium.com

  • viz
  • book

  A book review for Seeing with Fresh Eyes by Edward Tufte.

• Sketching in Data Visualization

  medium.com

  • viz
  • tips

  I realized the importance of sketching in data visualization from being stuck in a project.

• Observable D3 Gallery

  medium.com

  • viz
  • tips
  • learn

  Some inspiration for data visualization projects and using Observable for complex visualizations.

• Learning Scrollama

  medium.com

  • learn
  • tips
  • viz
  • js
  • web

  Thoughts, tips, and tricks I found while learning Scrollama.js for a project.

• Visualization Analysis and Design

  medium.com

  • viz
  • book

  Book review on Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner.

• Plotly for Data Visualization

  medium.com

  • viz
  • tips
  • learn

  Thoughts on learning a new tool, Plotly.

• Purposeful Data Visualization

  medium.com

  • viz
  • tips

  Blog post inspired by Visualization Analysis & Design by Tamara Munzner.

• Exploring Explainability for Vision Transformers

  medium.com

  • xai
  • ml
  • viz

  Since my research uses Vision Transformers, I decided to write about visualizing how these models create decisions.

• Predicting Breast Cancer

  medium.com

  • project
  • ds
  • r
  • ml

  Group project on breast cancer prediction with Michelle Manfrini.