I Gave an AI a Vocabulary of Only Emoji — And It Started to Communicate

In AMC’s Pantheon, a scientist named David Kim is uploaded — his mind digitized, his body gone. His daughter discovers he’s still there, trapped inside a computer, when he starts sending her emoji through her phone. He can think in full sentences. He can remember. He can love. But the only channel he has to reach her is the emoji keyboard. I couldn’t stop thinking about that scene. So I built it....

April 11, 2026 · 10 min · 2049 words · Me

Take Back Your Feed: Building a Privacy-First ML-Powered Content Filter

Every feed you use — Hacker News, Reddit, X — has the same problem. Either it’s chronological and you’re drowning in noise, or it’s ranked by an algorithm optimizing for engagement, not your actual interests. You scroll past 90% of what you see, hoping something relevant catches your eye before the dopamine loop wins. The usual solutions don’t help much. RSS gives you firehose-level control but no ranking. Keyword filters are blunt — blocking “crypto” also hides legitimate cryptography research....

February 24, 2026 · 10 min · 2112 words · Me

From Sound to Text in Real-Time: Understanding Voxtral Realtime

Most speech-to-text models work like a translator reading an entire letter before responding — they need the full audio clip before they can produce any text. But what if your model could transcribe speech as it’s being spoken, word by word, with barely any delay? That’s exactly what Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime does. Released by Mistral AI under the Apache 2.0 license, it’s a 4-billion parameter model that can transcribe audio in real-time with delays as low as 80 milliseconds....

February 16, 2026 · 10 min · 2029 words · Me

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