Learning in public

Hi, I'm Bhaskar — I write down what I learn so it actually sticks.

A full-stack engineer keeping a public log. I write up topics I want to understand from first principles, and the messier lessons from actually building and shipping — front end to database, whatever I'm stuck on that week.

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AI Governance as an Engineering System, Not a PDF Exercise

A first-principles guide to converting risk, regulatory, and ethical requirements into controls, evidence, ownership, and operational decisions

46 min

What Can We Really Know About Why an LLM Produced an Answer?

Interpretability is often described as “looking inside” a model. That phrase is dangerously vague.

31 min

The Most Important LLM Optimization May Be a Better Dataset

How production failures become reliable training and evaluation data

32 min

From One GPU to Distributed Language-Model Training

A first-principles guide to data, memory, parallelism, networking, recovery, evaluation, and release

41 min