Writing
Notes & essays
Build logs, things I'm learning, and the occasional opinion. Mostly multimodal models, computer vision, and whatever side project has my attention.
2026
- I cracked the World Padel Rating formula WPR doesn't publish how your rating moves, so I worked it out from about 7,000 real rating changes. Five things every player should know, a calculator for your next match, and how I cracked it.
- I got two parking tickets, so I trained a VLM A week in San Francisco, two parking tickets, and a small vision-language model I taught to read stacked parking signs and tell you if you can legally park.
- Building AURA FC: turning soccer footage into live AI commentary A build log for a pipeline that watches a soccer clip, works out what just happened, and commentates it back live, plus the three times my first guess was wrong.