I write about web development, AI, and things I learn while building projects.
Deep learning sees patterns; symbolic systems follow rules. Neither alone is enough for reliable reasoning. A practical look at why hybrid neuro-symbolic systems, from AlphaGeometry to tool-using LLMs, are quietly solving problems that pure scaling cannot.
Train a model that Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee Pfeiffer, and it still struggles to say who her son is. A 2023 finding shows large language models store facts in one direction only, and it says something deep about what knowing even means for a transformer.
Lessons from shipping a legal technology platform with role-based dashboards, real-time messaging, and AI drafting workflows.
How I used spaCy, fuzzy matching, and scikit-learn to build a practical recipe recommendation workflow.