Why the Hell Am I Writing a Blog?

Good question. I've asked myself the same thing. But after some thinking (and a lot of scrolling), here’s why this blog now exists (and hopefully I write more than just the few posts):

1. I’m back in research mode

Lately, I’ve been working on original research again — got a compute grant for a research idea from Lossfunk, where I’m working on a wacky idea for audio (specifically, music source separation). Some of my friends know about this, since I’ve talked about this on-and-off during grad school but didn’t have the time to work on it. Now I do.

I already organize my thoughts in Notion, but honestly, reading back through doc after doc gets pretty dull. Writing, on the other hand, feels more deliberate. My dad used to say: "Writing is the synthesized output of reading, learning, and understanding." So here I am — synthesizing.

2. LinkedIn broke me.

Somehow, LinkedIn surpassed Instagram as the doomscroll app of the year for me. Not by choice — you kinda have to network in this economy. But the number of "AI leaders" I see spouting contradictory takes weekly is wild. One day it’s “RAG is the future,” the next it’s “RAG is dead, long live MCP.” Writing snarky (but hopefully insightful) posts is my way of coping with the noise.

3. I need a lighthouse in the fog.

There’s an infinite stream of papers, models, and methods — keeping up is exhausting. Writing forces me to slow down, understand, and connect the dots. My first blog series, for example, is a deep dive into the evolution of computer vision — from SIFT and HOG to CNNs and ViTs. It grew out of a research idea I’m developing around world models for autonomous driving, where understanding the history of visual perception systems is more relevant than ever.

4. I want to leave behind some actual human text

This blog won’t always be right — sometimes I’ll be wildly off. But if it helps even one person (or future me, who’s inevitably confused at 2 AM) make sense of a tricky idea, rediscover something useful, or just get a good laugh at my mistakes, then mission accomplished. And hey, maybe I’m single-handedly keeping the “dead internet theory” from becoming a reality, one semi-coherent rant at a time.