Notes
Thoughts
This is the room I keep for everything that doesn't fit neatly into the other four. A book that rewires me, a game whose ending will not let me sleep, a stretch of music I can't stop returning to, a conversation that lit a bulb, a quiet evening of yoga, or a stubborn idea about how to live well - they all end up here. I don't write often, but when I do it's because something has been turning in my head long enough that the only way out is the page.
What I love about writing this way is the slowness of it. A reel is over before the thought begins; an essay forces you to sit with it, follow it down a corridor, see where it disagrees with itself. Most of what I publish here will be small - a paragraph, a recommendation, a half-formed argument I'll come back to a year later and laugh at. A few will be longer. All of them are honest.
What follows is a chronological collection of those notes, newest first.
Ten models, four domains
I built a local AI coaching system for Hindustani music, tennis, photography, and career coaching — then spent two weeks benchmarking ten models to find the right one. Speed, quality, thinking mode, MoE architecture, and a lot of out-of-memory crashes.
Riyaz with a machine
I wanted an AI practice companion for surbahar and sitar. The model kept inventing things about raags it barely knew. What followed was a Wikipedia corpus of 1,385 articles, some careful retrieval engineering, and a knowledge base nobody had built before.
Raag and taal
There is a question I get asked a lot and have never quite answered well - what makes Hindustani classical music different from any other music? Here is one attempt, in two parts.