Writing

Notes on building things from scratch.

Mostly variations on one theme — understand it before you use the library.

May 30, 20261 min read

An interactive guide to EDA

You open a new dataset and your brain goes: histogram? boxplot? scatter? heatmap? Instead of opening 17 tabs, I built the guide I kept wishing for.

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Apr 27, 20261 min read

Making backprop visible

I understood backprop on paper, yet I couldn't see it happening. So I built a scroll-driven walkthrough where the network builds itself and the gradients flow backward in front of you.

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Mar 18, 20261 min read

Build it before you abstract it away

No PyTorch. No .fit(). Just NumPy and the chain rule — and why building a neural network by hand changed how I think about everything downstream.

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