Writing
Posts on things I've worked through and wanted to explain properly.
2026
Building a Semantic Video Search Engine
2 August 2026 · 31 min read
Point it at a folder of videos, type "a red car driving at night", and get back exact timestamps across every video you own — each one playable at the moment it matched.
- CLIP
- FAISS
- Vector Search
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Kubernetes Pods Explained
2 August 2026 · 26 min read
What a Pod actually is, starting from the pause container nobody mentions: the lifecycle and its phases, imperative versus declarative creation, the manifest field by field, and the multi-container patterns worth knowing.
- Kubernetes
- Containers
- DevOps
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Language Model Distillation
18 March 2026 · 13 min read
Training a small student model to behave like a large teacher: what the soft probabilities actually carry, how to transfer attention patterns when the two models are different sizes, and how to tell whether it worked.
- Knowledge Distillation
- LLM
- Model Compression
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