An Experiment with AI Music Generation
An unedited AI-generated music sample, with questions about listening quality, evaluation, and provenance.
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METU
METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
Reflections on METU Sailing Club: racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
Marmaris
METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
Reflections on METU Sailing Club: racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
Music
An Experiment with AI Music Generation
An unedited AI-generated music sample, with questions about listening quality, evaluation, and provenance.
Urla
METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
Reflections on METU Sailing Club: racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
advice
How to Recognize Advice That Actually Helps
Entrepreneurs, researchers, and engineers live in a torrent of guidance. Podcasts, newsletters, and mentors offer conflicting prescriptions, each delivered w…
agile
Blockchain Oracles and Smart Contracts: The World’s Agile Board
Traditional agile boards depend on centralized tools and manual updates. As projects span multiple organizations and trust boundaries, these boards struggle …
ai
An Experiment with AI Music Generation
An unedited AI-generated music sample, with questions about listening quality, evaluation, and provenance.
Flight Simulation and the Evaluation of Learning Systems
General engineering considerations for evaluating learning systems in simulation, with a proposed research direction and its evidence limits.
Mission-Control Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Lessons and research questions from mission-control software work, with clear boundaries between engineering experience and future autonomy research.
architecture
The Myth of the Quick Fix
Every engineer knows the temptation of the “five-minute hack.” A bug appears, the schedule is tight, and a clever shortcut promises to save the day. Weeks la…
autonomy
Mission-Control Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Lessons and research questions from mission-control software work, with clear boundaries between engineering experience and future autonomy research.
aviation
Flight Simulation and the Evaluation of Learning Systems
General engineering considerations for evaluating learning systems in simulation, with a proposed research direction and its evidence limits.
biology
Y Combinator and DNA: Fixed Points in Code and Biology
It started while I was nursing a Saturday-morning coffee and catching up on YouTube. Around the 11:20 mark of this talk, the speaker described the choreograp…
blockchain
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
Blockchain Oracles and Smart Contracts: The World’s Agile Board
Traditional agile boards depend on centralized tools and manual updates. As projects span multiple organizations and trust boundaries, these boards struggle …
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
clinical-ai
Image Measurement with PyQt5: A Cardiology Aid
A clinician-calibrated EKG image measurement tool, and how its verified measurements can support human-in-the-loop clinical computer vision.
cloud
Secure Proxy on Cloud Paper Demonstration
Video demonstration of the Secure Proxy on Cloud paper, covering architecture motivation, implementation details, and development roadmap.
comparison
USA vs Netherlands: An Expat’s Perspective
Living as an expat has given me the chance to compare daily life in the United States and the Netherlands in a way that guidebooks never could. My notebook i…
computation
Y Combinator and DNA: Fixed Points in Code and Biology
It started while I was nursing a Saturday-morning coffee and catching up on YouTube. Around the 11:20 mark of this talk, the speaker described the choreograp…
computer-vision
Image Measurement with PyQt5: A Cardiology Aid
A clinician-calibrated EKG image measurement tool, and how its verified measurements can support human-in-the-loop clinical computer vision.
consensus
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
culture
Hiring Generalists: The Small Team’s Secret Weapon
Why early-stage engineering teams should hire for breadth and learning rate, and how generalists become the connective tissue that later scales into specialists.
USA vs Netherlands: An Expat’s Perspective
Living as an expat has given me the chance to compare daily life in the United States and the Netherlands in a way that guidebooks never could. My notebook i…
curiosity
Why Great Engineering Teams Run on Curiosity
Working on simulator software, defensive cybersecurity platforms, and doctoral research has taught me that durable progress rarely starts with a perfect road…
decentralization
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
decision-making
How to Recognize Advice That Actually Helps
Entrepreneurs, researchers, and engineers live in a torrent of guidance. Podcasts, newsletters, and mentors offer conflicting prescriptions, each delivered w…
defense
Mission-Control Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Lessons and research questions from mission-control software work, with clear boundaries between engineering experience and future autonomy research.
demonstration
Secure Proxy on Cloud Paper Demonstration
Video demonstration of the Secure Proxy on Cloud paper, covering architecture motivation, implementation details, and development roadmap.
developer-experience
Documentation as the First User Interface
Before a developer ever sees your landing page, they might encounter your README. For many technical products, documentation is the first user interface. It …
The Invisible Cost of Shiny Tools
Engineering teams love new tools. The promise of faster development, cleaner abstractions, or a more elegant stack is hard to resist. Yet every adoption deci…
documentation
Documentation as the First User Interface
Before a developer ever sees your landing page, they might encounter your README. For many technical products, documentation is the first user interface. It …
drones
Mission-Control Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Lessons and research questions from mission-control software work, with clear boundaries between engineering experience and future autonomy research.
edge-ai
Mission-Control Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Lessons and research questions from mission-control software work, with clear boundaries between engineering experience and future autonomy research.
engineering
Flight Simulation and the Evaluation of Learning Systems
General engineering considerations for evaluating learning systems in simulation, with a proposed research direction and its evidence limits.
engineering-practices
The Myth of the Quick Fix
Every engineer knows the temptation of the “five-minute hack.” A bug appears, the schedule is tight, and a clever shortcut promises to save the day. Weeks la…
erau
Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security
My 2025 doctoral research at Embry-Riddle on spoofing attacks, model watermarking, and the limits of experimental evidence.
expat
USA vs Netherlands: An Expat’s Perspective
Living as an expat has given me the chance to compare daily life in the United States and the Netherlands in a way that guidebooks never could. My notebook i…
exploration
Why Great Engineering Teams Run on Curiosity
Working on simulator software, defensive cybersecurity platforms, and doctoral research has taught me that durable progress rarely starts with a perfect road…
florida
Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security
My 2025 doctoral research at Embry-Riddle on spoofing attacks, model watermarking, and the limits of experimental evidence.
hiring
Hiring Generalists: The Small Team’s Secret Weapon
Why early-stage engineering teams should hire for breadth and learning rate, and how generalists become the connective tissue that later scales into specialists.
human-in-the-loop
Image Measurement with PyQt5: A Cardiology Aid
A clinician-calibrated EKG image measurement tool, and how its verified measurements can support human-in-the-loop clinical computer vision.
lambda-calculus
Y Combinator and DNA: Fixed Points in Code and Biology
It started while I was nursing a Saturday-morning coffee and catching up on YouTube. Around the 11:20 mark of this talk, the speaker described the choreograp…
machine-learning
Proof of Learning: Building Trust in Future Machine Learning
Proof of Learning (PoL) verifies that a model was genuinely trained on claimed data by providing verifiable evidence of the training process. I first felt th…
Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security
My 2025 doctoral research at Embry-Riddle on spoofing attacks, model watermarking, and the limits of experimental evidence.
Model Watermarking and the Future of Trustworthy AI
Model watermarking embeds identifiable patterns into a model’s parameters or outputs so that ownership can be demonstrated without access to the original tra…
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
Presenting at ICISSP 2021: rare-event detection in a low-resource language
The talk behind the ICISSP 2021 paper: what an agglutinative language does to keyword detection, and what the sample run measured.
model-watermarking
Model Watermarking and the Future of Trustworthy AI
Model watermarking embeds identifiable patterns into a model’s parameters or outputs so that ownership can be demonstrated without access to the original tra…
onboarding
Documentation as the First User Interface
Before a developer ever sees your landing page, they might encounter your README. For many technical products, documentation is the first user interface. It …
oracles
Blockchain Oracles and Smart Contracts: The World’s Agile Board
Traditional agile boards depend on centralized tools and manual updates. As projects span multiple organizations and trust boundaries, these boards struggle …
phd
Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security
My 2025 doctoral research at Embry-Riddle on spoofing attacks, model watermarking, and the limits of experimental evidence.
product
The Real Test for Making Something People Want
Scaling conversations dominate startup culture, yet the first question any product must answer is painfully small: will even one person use it when given the…
Why Early Beta Feedback Matters More Than Launch Day
Product launches often steal the spotlight, but the feedback gathered during early beta testing quietly determines whether launch day is a victory lap or a s…
productivity
The Invisible Cost of Shiny Tools
Engineering teams love new tools. The promise of faster development, cleaner abstractions, or a more elegant stack is hard to resist. Yet every adoption deci…
proof-of-learning
Proof of Learning: Building Trust in Future Machine Learning
Proof of Learning (PoL) verifies that a model was genuinely trained on claimed data by providing verifiable evidence of the training process. I first felt th…
publication
Presenting at ICISSP 2021: rare-event detection in a low-resource language
The talk behind the ICISSP 2021 paper: what an agglutinative language does to keyword detection, and what the sample run measured.
race
METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
Reflections on METU Sailing Club: racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
sailing
METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
Reflections on METU Sailing Club: racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
security
Proof of Learning: Building Trust in Future Machine Learning
Proof of Learning (PoL) verifies that a model was genuinely trained on claimed data by providing verifiable evidence of the training process. I first felt th…
Doctoral Research in Proof-of-Learning Security
My 2025 doctoral research at Embry-Riddle on spoofing attacks, model watermarking, and the limits of experimental evidence.
Model Watermarking and the Future of Trustworthy AI
Model watermarking embeds identifiable patterns into a model’s parameters or outputs so that ownership can be demonstrated without access to the original tra…
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
Presenting at ICISSP 2021: rare-event detection in a low-resource language
The talk behind the ICISSP 2021 paper: what an agglutinative language does to keyword detection, and what the sample run measured.
Secure Proxy on Cloud Paper Demonstration
Video demonstration of the Secure Proxy on Cloud paper, covering architecture motivation, implementation details, and development roadmap.
simulation
Flight Simulation and the Evaluation of Learning Systems
General engineering considerations for evaluating learning systems in simulation, with a proposed research direction and its evidence limits.
smart-contracts
Blockchain Oracles and Smart Contracts: The World’s Agile Board
Traditional agile boards depend on centralized tools and manual updates. As projects span multiple organizations and trust boundaries, these boards struggle …
startups
How to Recognize Advice That Actually Helps
Entrepreneurs, researchers, and engineers live in a torrent of guidance. Podcasts, newsletters, and mentors offer conflicting prescriptions, each delivered w…
The Real Test for Making Something People Want
Scaling conversations dominate startup culture, yet the first question any product must answer is painfully small: will even one person use it when given the…
Why Great Engineering Teams Run on Curiosity
Working on simulator software, defensive cybersecurity platforms, and doctoral research has taught me that durable progress rarely starts with a perfect road…
Hiring Generalists: The Small Team’s Secret Weapon
Why early-stage engineering teams should hire for breadth and learning rate, and how generalists become the connective tissue that later scales into specialists.
survey
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
technical-debt
The Myth of the Quick Fix
Every engineer knows the temptation of the “five-minute hack.” A bug appears, the schedule is tight, and a clever shortcut promises to save the day. Weeks la…
testing
The Real Test for Making Something People Want
Scaling conversations dominate startup culture, yet the first question any product must answer is painfully small: will even one person use it when given the…
Why Early Beta Feedback Matters More Than Launch Day
Product launches often steal the spotlight, but the feedback gathered during early beta testing quietly determines whether launch day is a victory lap or a s…
tooling
The Invisible Cost of Shiny Tools
Engineering teams love new tools. The promise of faster development, cleaner abstractions, or a more elegant stack is hard to resist. Yet every adoption deci…
user-feedback
Why Early Beta Feedback Matters More Than Launch Day
Product launches often steal the spotlight, but the feedback gathered during early beta testing quietly determines whether launch day is a victory lap or a s…
y-combinator
Y Combinator and DNA: Fixed Points in Code and Biology
It started while I was nursing a Saturday-morning coffee and catching up on YouTube. Around the 11:20 mark of this talk, the speaker described the choreograp…