Notes
Projects
PTP grandmaster in progress
ModernBERT ablation done
Field notes
- Teton Traverse
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.
Homelab
- PTP grandmaster clock
Networked precision time — a PTP grandmaster on the homelab network.
Horology
- Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical Bronze
Field notes on daily wear, winding, and how the bronze case takes a patina.
ML
- 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.