Hello World (Yes, Really)

Well, here we are. After spending years teaching neural networks to recognize images and optimizing inference servers to run in sub-second latencies, I’ve decided to do something that requires zero GPU memory: write a blog.

Why Start Blogging? (The Short Version)

I spend my days building ML systems that process millions of images for Fortune 10 companies. My models can tell the difference between 5,000 different products with 90% precision, but apparently I can’t tell the difference between “good idea” and “another side project I’ll abandon in 3 months.”

But seriously, after 3 years of building production ML systems and contributing to open source projects (shoutout to the 🤗 Hugging Face ecosystem), I realized I had accumulated a lot of thoughts about:

• Why some ML practices are total nonsense
• Why some “outdated” tools are actually brilliant
• Why you should care about things everyone else ignores

The Machines Made Me Do It

Okay, not really. But after spending countless hours debugging why a perfectly good model suddenly decided that a bottle of shampoo looks exactly like a bag of chips, I started having strong opinions about tech topics. And where do engineers go to share strong opinions? The internet, obviously.

Plus, my GitHub achievements include “Pull Shark” and “Arctic Code Vault Contributor,” which means my code is literally frozen in the Arctic for future civilizations to discover. If that’s not a sign I should document my thoughts before they get buried under polar ice, I don’t know what is.

What You Can Expect

This blog is called “Why Should You Care” (WSYC) because I’m tired of tech content that either:

1. Assumes you already know everything, or
2. Oversimplifies everything to the point of uselessness

Instead, I’ll be diving into topics and answering one simple question: Why should you actually care about this?

Whether it’s a tool everyone dismisses, a concept that seems intimidating but shouldn’t be, or a fundamental that everyone assumes you know (but maybe you don’t), I’ll break it down with practical examples and just enough humor to keep it interesting.

The Real Reason

Honestly? After years of making machines smarter, I figured it was time to try making humans (including myself) a bit smarter too. And if I can help someone avoid the 6-hour debugging session I had last week with a misconfigured Docker container, then this blog has already served its purpose.

Plus, writing is supposed to make you a better thinker. And since I’m already talking to my code all day (“Why won’t you converge?!”, “That’s not how gradients work!”, “Please just give me sub-1 second latency!”), talking to humans through a blog feels like a natural progression.

Let’s Do This

So welcome to my little corner of the internet where I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned building production ML systems, contributing to open source, and occasionally questioning my life choices at 2 AM while debugging inference servers.

First real post coming soon, and yes, it’ll actually be about something useful.

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P.S. - If you’re wondering why this is called “Hello World” instead of “Hello WSYC” or something more creative, it’s because some traditions are too good to break. Plus, I’m a programmer - we’re not known for our marketing creativity.