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5 min read

Always Prototype, Always Learn: Part One

Building an ML model from scratch: data chaos, iteration loops, and the months of manual work that came before the breakthrough.

#machine-learning#internship#data-engineering
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6 min read

Always Prototype, Always Learn: Part Two

The breakthrough moment: when a new intern challenged everything we'd built, introduced AutoML, and took the project from notebook to staging server.

#machine-learning#internship#autoML
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7 min read

I built a data pipeline to track my coffee spending

I built a terabyte-scale data pipeline to track my coffee spending, and it costs less than $2 a month.

#dataflow#apache-beam#google-dataflow
Wired Sixth Intelligence
4 min read

OpenClaw 2-Month Experiment: 5 Things I Actually Learned

After two months using OpenClaw to speed up my side projects, I figured it's time to share what actually worked. Forget the marketing hype: these are the real lessons from daily use.

#openclaw#ai#agents
Wired Sixth Intelligence
6 min read

Making sense of social attribution

How we built a correlation pipeline to connect social mentions with reach data, so marketers can stop guessing and start knowing.

#data-engineering#aws-glue#s3
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2 min read

When clicks and sessions don't match

Clicks and sessions rarely match, and that's okay. Here's how to triage the gap in 15 minutes.

#clicks#sessions#attribution
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2 min read

Tracking 200 events is worse than tracking 5

A messy swamp of data won't help you. Pick the 5 events that drive revenue and nail them.

#data-quality#event-tracking#analytics
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2 min read

The '100% Match' Myth: Why BI Dashboards Will Never Perfectly Match Native Platforms

BI dashboards rarely align perfectly with native platforms. Here's why mismatches occur and how to manage expectations.

#bi-dashboards#data-mismatch#analytics
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