Deeraj's Notebook
Research notes and creative writing.
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A Perfectly Valid Certificate for the Wrong Thing
My position on multilingual unlearning, with the maths behind it. Certify the fact and not the string, close the forget set across languages, and report the worst language instead of the average.
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What I Am
A wedding crasher, a borrowed car, a fake lawyer and a poet for twenty minutes, on belonging as half real and half theatre.
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What a certificate of forgetting actually certifies
Notes on (ε, δ)-certified removal, the Newton-step update behind it, and what the guarantee does and does not say about a deployed model.
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Notes on slow reading in a fast tool
On why I print the papers I most want to understand, and what a margin pencil does that a highlighter pen in a PDF viewer does not.
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Eighteen Degrees of Separation
From my father's compressor negotiations to a WiFi air conditioner with forty-two buttons, on paying for comfort in installments.
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Inheritance of Inaction
Six white shirts, one unused iron, and what we actually inherit from our parents, which turns out to be the anxiety and not the discipline.
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Designing in two registers
What laying out a printed page has taught me about writing a clean evaluation table, and the reverse.
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Sand Worth Half an Hour
A half-an-hourglass on a grandmother's dining table, and what it took to stop measuring time and start feeling it.
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The Last Barber of Block E
A portrait of the man who still cuts hair with scissors, and a shop that resists time by simply refusing to hurry.
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The Philosophy of Small Talk
On "Chai peeni hai?", the small questions that hold relationships together, and what we lose when efficiency eats them.