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document
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Every post is an experiment. Hypothesis first, observations next, verdict at the end. Achievements and learnings are equally first-class — because showing the wrong turns is what builds trust in the map.
★ CURRENTLY IN THE LAB
Active Experiments
Total experiments
13
Achievements
8
Learnings
5
Active quests
4
1RgRAG3
2EmEmbed0
3RkRerank0
4EvEvals3
5ClCalibrate0
6BmBenchmark0
7MlMLOps2
8LtLatency0
9CsCost0
10ScScale0
11PrPrompts0
12SfSafety0
13DbDebug0
14NtNotes1
15ThTheory1
16OpOptimise2
17AtAttention1
EXP #013
Attention: How a Word Reads the Room
The word "bank" means river or money depending on the words around it — yet its embedding is identical in both. Attention is how a word rewrites itself from the room it sits in. Building Query, Key, and Value from scratch — a realtor listing, a dot product, and the one division by √d_k that keeps the whole thing learning.
★ ACTIVE QUESTS
Q-01
Building RAG from Scratch
Personal knowledge retrieval — from zero to state-of-the-art
✓ 0 achievements ⚠ 0 learnings 5 experiments
2026-05 → present →
Q-02
ML Foundations from First Principles
The fundamentals every MAANG interview tests — owned, not memorised
✓ 0 achievements ⚠ 0 learnings 5 experiments
2026-06 → present →
Q-03
Production ML — Monitoring, Serving, Scale
Keeping models alive after launch — the MLOps half of the job
✓ 0 achievements ⚠ 0 learnings 2 experiments
2026-06 → present →
All quests →
— every post is an experiment. test the test before you test the model. —