A June traverse of the Tetons — up Granite Canyon to the crest, then Cascade Canyon to a still-frozen Lake Solitude — with the valley's quiet edges before and after.
Working notes on machine learning, the homelab, and horology.
Finished
What is the big deal with transformers?
Working through the attention paper: what self-attention does, why multiple heads help, and how position gets back in.
Document context vs. CRF decoding on ModernBERT for CoNLL-2003 NER
A 2×2 ablation on CoNLL-2003; document-level context helped, but stacking CRF on top did not.
In the works
Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Bronze in progress