I have a blog, therefore I should update it occasionally.

Reflecting on my two months at Fortanix.

A new solution to the two-body problem: remote software engineering work.

10 ways to have empathy for students when COVID (and remote learning) has exacerbated economic and social barriers to learning.

My time as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College is coming to an end.

FastRank is a new python library implemented in Rust that supports Coordinate Ascent and Random Forest learning-to-rank models.

The predicted probability of being clickbait for a WaPo article helps select better background articles in a large learning-to-rank model.

Past articles tend to be more useful than future articles and language models + bm25 is a very strong baseline.