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Occasional writing on AI, engineering decisions, and building in context.
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What I learned building a mental health platform for Ethiopia
The technical decisions were the easy part. The hard part was figuring out what responsible AI looks like when the stakes are someone's mental health — and how to build for a market Stripe doesn't support.
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Using CatBoost for mental health assessment: tradeoffs and lessons
A deep dive into building an ML-powered assessment tool — handling imbalanced data, avoiding overfitting, and knowing when not to trust your model.