Derailing the Guardrails: Why All Guardrails Fail
Guardrails don't fail because they're not smart enough. They fail because they can't see enough.
Three-Step Design Pattern for Specializing LLMs
A practical framework for choosing between fine-tuning, RAG, and prompt engineering when adapting a base model.
Beyond Keywords: Redefining Discovery with Multimedia Semantic Search
Notes on the shift from keyword matching to semantic retrieval across text, images, and video.
An Introduction to Category Recommendations with Implicit Feedback
How implicit user signals and shared-embedding retrieval let recommenders suggest whole categories — not just items — for open-ended discovery.
The Power of Embeddings: Bridging Diverse Data Domains
A short primer on vector embeddings — the shared 'addresses' in latent space that power semantic search, recommendations, and multimodal AI.
Tracking People Without GPS
Bruce Schneier highlights our research showing that accelerometer, magnetometer, and barometer data — combined with public maps and weather — can pinpoint a smartphone user's location without GPS.