Blog

Here, I tend to write about things I think through as I walk, travel, or dream. Some posts will be about research and machine learning, while others may touch on academic culture, career advice, travel, geopolitics, or ideas that might not fit neatly anywhere else.

Upcoming posts:

• The cost of LLMs
• The broken review system
• Dynamic Networks
• How to use agentic tools (Codex, Claude code, etc)
• Acknowledgements (childhood, mentors, collaborators, and the people who helped along the way)
• My Experience at Mila - Quebec AI Institute (one of the most collaborative AI research environments)
• How “what you search” effect “what you would see next” (The mess of search and recommender systems)
• The stateless child (The privilege of having a strong passport)
• My experience traveling to over 20 countries
• The beauty of maths
• The geopolitics of Horn of Africa
• Trump, Musk, and the politics of platform power
• What small states can teach us about state capacity
• Why I do not use LinkedIn (the bragging platform)
• About extremism, ethnicities, and tribal divisions
• The beauty of the Somali lineage system
• What makes a state prosper
• Cooking