Writing
Longer pieces on engineering, quantitative methods, and technical decision-making.
- Mar 25, 2026 On Gradient Descent and Building Intuition for Optimisation
A clear walkthrough of gradient descent — the algorithm underpinning most of modern machine learning — with emphasis on intuition over notation.
- Mar 20, 2026 Choosing the Right Data Structure Is a Design Decision
Data structure selection is often taught as a performance question. In practice, it's a clarity question — and clarity compounds.
- Mar 15, 2026 What I Got Wrong About Learning to Code
Reflections on switching careers into software engineering — the mistakes, the corrections, and what actually accelerated progress.