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Writing

Essays on scientific machine learning, AI, and the tools I use.
An old wooden cart wheel engulfed in flames on grass

Letting Go of the Wheel: Why I Am on AI’s Side

ai
opinion

Every great innovation took a routine skill off our hands, and every time, we resisted before we embraced it. From the wheel to the calculator to AI agents, a case for letting machines handle the low-level work while we become better decision-makers.

6 November 2026
13 min
Ball-and-stick model of a fullerene cage inside a wireframe surface

The Universal Promise: Do We Actually Need Chemical Foundation Models?

research
machine learning
chemistry

From billion-parameter transformers to universal interatomic potentials, chemistry AI is scaling fast. But scale alone does not equal scientific discovery — and the evidence reveals exactly where these models shine and where they break down.

12 May 2026
8 min
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A Decade of Linux Setups — Why I Stopped Looking for ‘The One’

linux
tools

A personal account of years spent distro-hopping across the Linux ecosystem — from Debian and Arch to Fedora and back to openSUSE Tumbleweed — and how I stopped looking for ‘The One’ distro, fixed the packages problem with pixi and Flatpak, and let each distro earn its place.

7 May 2026
43 min
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