What a stubborn training log taught me about measuring before tuning I learned this one the slow way: most “stuck” models were never moving in the first place. I spent days staring at a training log that refused to budge. Validation loss bouncing in a narrow band, accuracy wobbling literally around the same values, epoch […]
That’s the name of a book: *Doctoring Data* by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. It teaches you how to spot misleading medical claims and understand the tricks used in health research and media. But you could easily generalize it to all kinds of data. The mindset is there — the idea — and you can definitely see […]
There is a reason many of us hesitate to work on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or any of these so‑called “free” online services. It is not because the technology is bad. It is because the model is bad. These services do not just host our content — they quietly learn from our experiences, our decisions, […]