Blog

Documenting my exploration of AI concepts, frameworks, and practical implementations.

Personal Jan 16, 2026 4 min read

Welcome: Why I'm Building This Site

My journey exploring artificial intelligence through hands-on projects and experiments.

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AI/ML Jan 17, 2026 6 min read

Benchmarking Claude Vision Models for OCR

Testing Haiku and Sonnet on wine label recognition: from single bottles to crowded grocery shelves.

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Machine Learning Jan 2026 12 min read

When Wine Meets AI: Climate, Data, and Discovery

How a wine lover used machine learning to predict which grapes will thrive in California by 2050 — and learned that sometimes the best insight is knowing when not to use AI.

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Data Engineering Jan 2026 18 min read

Deep Dive: Wrestling Climate Data Into Submission

How I collected, cleaned, and engineered 27 years of climate data across two continents — and why this took longer than building the ML models.

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Machine Learning Jan 2026 15 min read

Deep Dive: The Model That Worked Too Well

How 96% accuracy turned into 28% accuracy — and why that "failure" was the most important finding of the entire project.

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Machine Learning Jan 2026 20 min read

Deep Dive: Climate Analog Matching and 2050 Projections

When machine learning classification failed, I turned to a simpler, more defensible approach — and finally got insights worth trusting.

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