Posts

• On Doing Exceptional Work: A Grit-Fueled Journey Through Tech's Trenches — 2025-07-24
  Hey folks, I’ve been knee-deep in job hunting lately, and one question keeps hitting me like a ton of bricks: “Prove to me you’ve done exceptional work.” As ...
• Road to a SOTA PII Model — 2025-06-27
  Yes, I’m using PHI and PII interchangeably. Yes, I know they’re not the same. No, I don’t care. It’s my blog.
• Using Decoder-Only LLMs for PHI De-Identification: A Minimal Setup — 2025-06-17
  This was originally a notebook I built for a summer student. The goal: test if decoder-style LLMs can help extract PHI from clinical text — and wrap their ou...
• RAG Experiments: Chunking, Retrieval, Reformulation — 2025-06-16
  Chunking, hybrid retrieval, and reformulation strategies for clinical RAG pipelines, including Dense X Retrieval and proposition-based methods.