Contents
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Writing
- Preferred Problem Spaces — Building My Career Around What Keeps Me Curiousessayphilosophy
- The Next Starting Lineessayphilosophy
- Complex Systems, Not Integrations: What Forward-Deployed/AI Engineering Is Missingessayscience · engineering
- Memories 1: Growing up in Singalandapuramessayart
- Pre-NEET: the story the data missed, and how people misread Tamil Naduessayscience · philosophy
- Our first job was forward deployed engineering — or maybe beyond thatessayengineering · philosophy
- Curriculum as a Living Systemessayengineering · philosophy
- How I Built Myself a Curriculum From Zero (thinking out loud with an AI)essayphilosophy · science
- A State of Me, and What's Nextreflectionphilosophy
- A Letter to a Fellow Mu Sigman — Don't You Think You Should Quit the Job?essayphilosophy
- Scaling the Learning Experience (as a Human)essayphilosophy · science
- How Kavin Aravindhan Shaped His Career — From a Fresher to Advanced Master's Research at Columbia | A Conversationdialoguephilosophy
- Arcs of Workessayphilosophy · science
- Decision Engineering: A Unified, Structural Stack for Holistic Problem Solvingessayengineering · science
- A Map of the Hands-On AI Landscape: Where to Build, What to Learn, and Where to Go All Inessayphilosophy · engineering
- Is Data Science Dead? Or What Makes the Field More Alive?essayphilosophy · science
- How DSI Solutions Is Winning the E-Commerce Battle with Agentic AIessayengineering · science
- Whom to Work Under: A Filter That Took Six Years to Buildessayphilosophy
- Agents as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Design and Study Frameworkessayscience · engineering
- The Work Speaksessayphilosophy · engineering
- The Artist and the Engineer: A Self-Diagnosisessayart · philosophy · engineering
- Portfolio as a System, Not a Showcaseessayphilosophy
- A Food Map of Tamil Naduessayart · science
- On Becoming a Research Engineer: A Denoising Step Toward Clarityessayphilosophy
- All I Need Is a Renaissance, Summer, and Successreflectionart · philosophy
- The $100 Event: A Socratic Dialogessayphilosophy
- Bounded Rationality and How Graduate Students Choose Their Coursesessayscience · philosophy
- Three Pillars: A Research Strategy for the Age of Agentic AIessayscience · engineering
- Random Yappingreflectionart · philosophy
- Notes on Spring 2026 Electives at Columbiaessayphilosophy · science
- Building AI Agents: What You Actually Need to Think Aboutessayscience · engineering
- Do Not Let Others Disturb Your Flowreflectionphilosophy
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 3essayphilosophy
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 2essayphilosophy
- Me and My Entrepreneurial Dream: Part 1essayphilosophy
- Bootcamps, Online Courses, and LinkedIn Influencers: A Misleading Startessayphilosophy · science
- Spring 2026: Setting a Priorreflectionart · philosophy
- Columbia MS in Data Science: An Honest Perspectiveessayphilosophy · science
- What I See When I Look at the World Right Nowessayphilosophy · science
- It's Crowded Everywhereessayart · philosophy
- Experiments with Myselfreflectionphilosophy
- Career, Interest, Passion, Agency — My Eight-Year Journeyessayphilosophy
- Everything About Analytics: Signals, Systems, and the Art of Making Senseessayscience · engineering
- A Clear-Eyed Roadmap to Applied AI and ML Engineering in 2026 (Part 2)essayscience · engineering
- A Clear-Eyed Roadmap to Applied AI and ML Engineering in 2026 (Part 1)essayscience · engineering
- Convergence at Midnightreflectionart · philosophy
- The 2026 Roadmap: Data Scienceessayscience · engineering
- The Aha Moment — On Cognitive Architectures and Learningessayphilosophy · science
- Learning as a Denoising Diffusion Processessayscience · philosophy
- I Just Need to Be a Cook — to Build Great Thingsessayengineering · art
- Why I May Need God — A Contemplationessayphilosophy
- Conviction, Confession, and Continuationreflectionart · philosophy
- Finding Your Taste — Career Flavors in AI/ML/Data Scienceessayphilosophy · engineering
- Metamorphosis and Unlearningreflectionphilosophy
- The Learn-Experiment-Interact Loop — A Philosophy for Navigating Complexityessayphilosophy · science
- You Are Not My Type! — Archetypes Among Grad Studentsessayphilosophy · science
- 50 Shades of Linear Regressionessayengineering · science
- On Not Nullifying Years of Effort — A Mid-Journey Reflectionreflectionphilosophy
- Taming the Mindset — It's an Unlearning First Journeyreflectionphilosophy
- A Letter to My Fellow Grad Students — Navigating the AI Era Togetheressayphilosophy
- My First Week at Columbia — Crafting the Perfect ML/Data Science Course Portfolioessayphilosophy · science
- Correlation Still Matters — Why We Shouldn't Abandon Association in Our Rush to Causationessayscience
Lab
- Daybook, 1 September 2026dayengineering
- Daybook, 21 August 2026dayscience
- Daybook, 23 July 2026dayengineering
- Daybook, 22 July 2026dayengineering
- Daybook, 21 July 2026dayscience · engineering
- Daybook, 20 July 2026dayengineering
- Daybook, 19 July 2026dayscience
- Daybook, 18 July 2026dayscience
- Daybook, 17 July 2026dayscience · engineering
- Daybook, 16 July 2026dayengineering · science
- Daybook, 15 July 2026dayscience
- Daybook, 14 July 2026dayscience · engineering
- Daybook, 13 July 2026dayscience · engineering
- The many kinds of Research Engineerbuildscience · engineering
- Daybook, 12 July 2026dayscience
- Daybook, 11 July 2026dayengineering · science
- Daybook, 10 July 2026dayscience · engineering
- Daybook, 9 July 2026dayengineering
- decision-engineeringbuildengineering · science
- Engineering Practicebuildscience · engineering
- Causal State-Space Models for Time Seriesbuildscience · engineering
- Generative Social Network Simulationbuildscience · engineering
- HMV-CRL: Separating What You Want from What You Were Shownbuildscience · engineering
- Personality-Aligned Vision-Language Modelbuildscience · engineering
- Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networksbuildscience · engineering
- Zero-Shot Coordination in Multi-Agent RLbuildscience · engineering
Lessons
- Perspectives on Problemssessionphilosophy · science
- The Art of Problem Solving in the Age of Superintelligencecourseunder wayphilosophy · science
- Readingreadingphilosophy
- AI Safety, Alignment, Human & AI Systems, Evals, Diffusion and Futurescourseplannedphilosophy · science
- Complexity Science and AIcourseunder wayscience · philosophy
- Open Models, Sovereign AI, Systems, Scale and Product Research and Deployment Engineeringcourseplannedengineering
- Research Engineering Alchemycourseunder wayscience · engineering
- What I am working throughnotephilosophy · science
- FAIRE — Frontiers in AI Research and Engineeringnotephilosophy · engineering
- Personal Curriculumtrackscience · engineering
- The Philosophical Roots of Frontier AI: A Primerprimerphilosophy · science
- Philosophical foundationsprimerphilosophy · science
- 20th-century pivotsprimerphilosophy · science
- A MECE map of AI/ML schools in 2026primerphilosophy · science
- The great debatesprimerphilosophy · science
- Lab landscape 2026primerphilosophy · science
- The training pipeline as philosophical injection pointprimerphilosophy · science
- Reasoning, consciousness, and the hardware substrateprimerphilosophy · science
- The grand synthesisprimerphilosophy · science
- Survey Referencesnotephilosophy · science
- Technical Frontiers for Research Engineeringnotescience · engineering
- The Philosophical Roots of Frontier AI: the academic draftprimerphilosophy · science
- Energy as the Universal Organizing Principlenotescience · philosophy
- AI / ML Course Atlas Across Leading Universitiesnotescience · engineering
- Learning as Theory of Everythingnotescience · philosophy
- The Origins of World Modelsnotescience · philosophy
- Why I'm Building This Notes Sectionnotephilosophy
Inquiries
- Are we not intellectually curious about AI and data science?inquiryworking
- What story did the data miss?inquiryworking
- Is learning a kind of denoising?inquiryworking
- What does someone who knows a little of everything become, when machines know a lot of everything?inquiryworking
- Is this the right problem, and the right intervention?inquiryworking
- Which problems become solvable now, and which only look solvable?inquiryworking
- What system is worth understanding, and what is actually happening underneath it?inquiryworking
- When an AI system enters a hospital, a market or a classroom, what does it change that nobody measured?inquiryworking
- Where do advanced systems go wrong, and how early can we see it?inquiryworking
Correspondence
- Introducing "nudge_" — A Newsletter for the Inquisitive Grad Mindlettersettledphilosophy