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Fairness Is a Build Step: Rethinking my fair lending work at PayPal, two years out

September 28, 2026

Two years after leaving PayPal, a plain-language look at the adversarial de-biasing tool my team patented, and why its biggest win was moving fairness out of a late review and into the model build.

Experiment Logs: Another attempt at originality in an unfamiliar domain, which converged to unoriginality — a bitter lesson.

November 13, 2025

A spin-off from real time 3D reconstruction - Robotics Control, POMDPs, and an attempt at a custom algorithmic trading strategy

Beyond SIFT: How Neural Rendering and Transformers Are Rewriting Visual AI/graphics

June 13, 2025

Exploring the evolution from manually-crafted features like SIFT for 3D reconstruction, to the rise of neural rendering techniques and transformer-based architectures in computer vision.