AI voice dictation is having a moment. These tools do more than transcribe—they read context, add punctuation, and learn your style. Many creators say they work two to three times faster. Two weeks ago I started using Wispr Flow Pro. Here is what I found. The Good There is no doubt this has been a real productivity boost. It does not feel like the old dictation tools because the AI cleans up...

It happens to most of us multiple times a week: someone emails asking for a good time to meet, and before you know it, you're stuck in a back-and-forth scheduling spiral. It's a mundane friction that adds up. Four weekends ago, I decided to vibe-code my way to a solution. The result? A fragile but functional AI-native assistant I called Munshi (Hindi for secretary, pronounced moon-she). You can...

I first wrapped my head around diffusion models in 2023, thanks to MIT 6.S191 Lecture on 'Deep Learning New Frontiers'. The idea of reverse-denoising just clicked for me—it reminded me of how our brains pick out shapes and objects in clouds or random mosaics. Yesterday my subscription from 3Blue1Brown surfaced 'But how do AI videos actually work?' a guest video by ‪@WelchLabsVideo‬. That video...

This weekend I finally finished reading Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind AI (by Anil Ananthaswamy). It took me seven months—an unusually long time for a 500-page book. But the detour was worth it: the book kept sending me down side paths, like brushing up on linear algebra and derivatives—topics I hadn’t revisited in nearly three decades. Now that I'm done, the book feels like a...

Earlier this year, I began researching mitral valve surgery (specifically, valve repair vs. replacement) to help someone close to me. This experience introduced me to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tools, which made navigating such a complex topic much easier. If you’ve ever wondered how to tackle a complicated subject and organize a large body of information, read on—I think you’ll find...