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Sachin’s random thoughts.

20 Jan 2025

First Time Applying to Jobs

Preface Posting about getting into companies is a tricky topic for me. Back in Apr 20231, I said my goal with this blog ...
18 Jan 2025

Believing the AI Hype

Really? Yes. I quit my current job. I think we are on the verge of a new class of applications1 that were not possible p...
14 Oct 2024

An Outage

Analyzing an Outage I don’t have a ton to post about recently, but I realized it would be interesting to analyze w...
22 May 2024

Efficient Neural Networks

Update Oct 2024 UC Berkeley has a AI systems, taught in various versions by Ion Stoica, Joseph Gonzalez, Matei Zaharia (...
23 Feb 2024

Failing at Privacy in College

Goals When talking about this, I want to first establish a threat model. I will follow the questions listed in the priva...
22 Feb 2024

Rust WASM Neural Net PART 4 - Other Stuff

API The API1 is super simple. MNIST Data2 I create some basic endpoints for get a sample of MNIST or a block of MNIST sa...
18 Feb 2024

Rust WASM Neural Net PART 3 - Website

Components Main Components (organized by thread1): UI rendering and interaction Model training and inference stateDiagra...
07 Feb 2024

Rust WASM Neural Net PART 2 - Model

General Principles Efficiency The model should not only be efficient in network structure1, but also in implementation (...
06 Feb 2024

Rust WASM Neural Net PART 1 - Overview

Introduction I created a Neural Net that sits in your browser1 to detect handwritten digits2 (primarily from the MNIST d...
14 Dec 2023

Unsuccessful Rabbitholeathon App

Rabbitholeathon I reached the waitlist for rabbitholeathon but am semi-proud of my application, so here it is. I think I...