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Notes on software architecture, engineering practices, and lessons from building production systems.
ML2026.04.2415 MIN
SkylarkOS: Real-Time Perception on a Jetson, End to End in 11ms
Model choices, precision tradeoffs, and the latency budget behind a multi-model perception stack running at 62fps on an autonomous drone
BACKEND2026.04.1016 MIN
Training at Scale: Spot Instances, S3 & a DynamoDB Experiment Ledger
How to train a 200-epoch object detection model on AWS spot instances for a fraction of on-demand cost — with automatic recovery when they get reclaimed
ML2026.03.279 MIN
Training MobileNetV2-SSD: Target Assignment, Loss Functions & Training Tricks
A deep dive into the SSD training loop — IoU-based matching, hard negative mining, mixed precision, EMA, and cosine learning rate scheduling
ML2026.03.0522 MIN
Building MobileNetV2-SSD: An Edge-Optimized Object Detection Architecture
How I built a MobileNetV2-SSD object detector from scratch in TensorFlow, reaching 77% mAP on VOC while running in real time on Jetson edge hardware
BACKEND2026.02.1813 MIN
Building Faster R-CNN Model Architectures
Building Faster R-CNN architecture for object detection tasks using TensorFlow