Writing
I write two kinds of things. The technical posts here are mostly problems I hit at work and could not find written down. The essays and poems go on my Substack, An Anxious Nomad Collective.
On this site
Technical posts, newest first.
Will I Hit My Target? A Monte Carlo Planner with ML Inputs
I built a portfolio planner that feeds four machine-learning models into one Monte Carlo wealth simulation, then asks a concrete question. Given a target and a contribution, what are the odds, and how much more would move them? On the synthetic dataset the median lands just short, and the interesting part is what the simulation is made of.
The QSVM Coin Flip Was an Encoding Artifact: Quantum Kernels on Synthetic ICU Data
In July I blamed chance-level quantum SVM scores on the experiment's small size. A later ablation traced them to an unscaled angle encoding: rescaled on the same 200 rows, the QSVMs reach 0.70 to 0.80 ROC-AUC, and a post-hoc RBF SVM tuned the same way scores 0.810, above each on point estimate. All numbers are from synthetic data.
Raising an Alien in Simulation: Building a Robot's Brain Without the Robot
In July 2026 I built and tested Rocky's software brain in simulation, with no robot, no GPU and no local LLM in the loop, by putting every external dependency behind a Protocol with a Fake. Rocky has since been tested on the physical Reachy Mini and works; this corrected essay keeps the sim-first argument and records what changed.
FHIR for AI/ML engineers
A field guide to the healthcare data standard for engineers meeting it for the first time: what it solves, and where it leaves the hard part to you.
From Physics PDEs to PyTorch: What Experimental Physics Taught Me About Debugging ML
A physics undergrad spends a year staring at noisy oscilloscope traces and mis-zeroed polarizers. Years later, the same habits keep ML models honest. Characterize the instrument, plot the residuals, check the dimensions, flip the magnet.
Dismantled by Design: The Truth Behind Modern Book Censorship
Investigative analysis of coordinated book banning campaigns, debunking myths with ALA data and PEN America reports.
Debunking Denialism About Canada's Sixties Scoop Policy
Historical analysis confronting revisionist narratives about the systematic removal of Indigenous children in Canada.
On the Substack
The latest from An Anxious Nomad Collective. Free to read.
- Would You Stay in the Painting?
On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a thought experiment from 1974, and the places we keep the people we have lost.
Read on Substack ↗ - Everyone You Write About Is Already a Ghost
It’s 3:14 and I’m awake and I’m writing about someone who doesn’t know I’m doing it.
Read on Substack ↗ - Maybe
I am just tired.
Read on Substack ↗ - The Grace of Strangers
and the Devil in the Quiet
Read on Substack ↗ - Marginalia
The Tragedy of the Almost
Read on Substack ↗ - The Land In Between
On Loss of Identity
Read on Substack ↗ - Dear Papa
My father passed away. I was in another country, building the life he told me to build. I flew back the same day. Since then I have been trying to write him a letter.
Read on Substack ↗ - East of Eden
Under The Line Review
Read on Substack ↗ - Just Out of Reach
On unrequited love, and what a French novelist knew about the person you cannot stop thinking about.
Read on Substack ↗ - Present
An Essay and A Poem
Read on Substack ↗
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