The Datacenter and Beyond
VL2, FaRM, eRPC, Spanner, and CausalSim. The datacenter papers I don't remember, the ones I do, and what ten weeks of CS244C changed about how I think.
Bhavana AI
AI/ML insights and consulting
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The Math Your Network Engineers Aren't Doing
Congestion control is half of computer systems. Four papers from Stanford's CS244C on fairness, adversarial networks, and why overprovisioning is the honest answer.
Consensus Is Tricky, and People Don't Want to Mess With It
Two-Phase Commit, Zookeeper, Raft, and Simplex. Four papers on consensus from Stanford's CS244C, and why mathematical perfection matters less than defense in depth.
The Internet Was an Argument
End-to-End Arguments, Tussle in Cyberspace, and Wallbleed. Three papers from Stanford's CS244C that reframed how I think about where intelligence belongs in a system.
I Ran 190 A/B Tests to See if MCP Tools Waste Tokens
190 controlled A/B tests show MCP costs 1.2-2x more tokens than CLI tools, but tool gaps -- not protocol overhead -- cause the real failures.
I Built My Own Tesla Data Pipeline for $9/Month (With AI Writing Most of the Code)
Every Tesla data service had a dealbreaker. So I built a streaming telemetry pipeline from scratch, with Claude doing the heavy lifting. Here's the decision process, the architecture, and what the data actually looks like.
Validating Embedding Models at Scale (Part B: Cross-Validation on 7,813 Entries)
56 hand-labeled entries said Azure OpenAI was the best embedding model. 7,813 entries with cross-validation say otherwise -- and reveal why F1 = 0.46 isn't a failure.
Comparing Embedding Models for a Knowledge Graph (Part A: The 56-Entry Test)
How I compared 4 embedding models for entity disambiguation in a Cosmere knowledge graph -- and what the metrics actually mean.
The Integral Problem: Why AI Isn't Moving the Productivity Needle
AI adoption and potential gain are inversely correlated -- the people who would benefit most aren't using the tools. Here's the research, the math, and what to do about it.
How I Set Up Claude Code to Run From My Phone (And What I Learned About tmux Along the Way)
A walkthrough of setting up remote access to Claude Code from an iPhone using Tailscale, mosh, and tmux, including the detours, dead ends, and the surprisingly simple setup I ended up with.
The Car Wash Test: Why the Model That Solved a Quantum Breakthrough Can't Wash Your Car
I tested 9 frontier AI models with a deceptively simple question. The results reveal a fascinating tension between statistical priors and reasoning ability.
Dev Log: February 15, 2026
Nanny Timesheet, Short Projects, Courses
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Where Should I Live?
An interactive map of 32,000 home sales in King and Snohomish County, with traffic-aware commute times to work and climbing gyms.
Dev Log: February 12, 2026
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Dev Log: February 11, 2026
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GitHub's Outage Problem Isn't About Azure
Analyzing 1,234 GitHub incidents from 2013-2026 to test whether rising outages correlate with the Azure migration or product expansion.
Every Breath You Take: Air Quality Across 277 Indian Cities
Analyzing daily PM2.5 and AQI data from 277 Indian cities to find that the most polluted places are small towns, not the metros that make headlines.
Dev Log: February 10, 2026
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Dev Log: January 9, 2026
CS244 GPU scheduling traces, GFW censorship research
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CS244 project research