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2posts on engineering, ML, and building things that shouldn't work on a student budget.

2026 · 03 · 148 min read#engineering

How I Built a RAG Pipeline That Actually Ships

A production postmortem on embeddings, chunking strategies, and the three weeks I spent fighting pgvector index configs — and what building Studium taught me when I had to do it all over again for Balatro Coach.

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2025 · 11 · 0212 min read#research

Understanding Evolving Sentiment Dynamics in Indonesian Disaster-Related Tweets

Fine-tuning IndoBERT for aspect-sentiment analysis on 4,506 disaster tweets — uncovering how public sentiment toward Indonesian crises shifts over time, and what that tells authorities about unmet needs.

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