about

i'm Shyam Pathak, an ai/ml engineer and researcher. this site is a long-running notebook — essays on whatever i'm chewing on, terse summaries of papers i've read carefully, and write-ups of small projects when they're worth sharing.

most of what shows up here lives at the intersection of training, evaluation, and interpretability. i'm particularly drawn to mechanistic-interp tooling, scaling recipes, and the gap between what benchmarks measure and what models actually do.

nothing here is ai-generated unless explicitly labelled. nothing here speaks for any employer.

elsewhere

• github github.com/shyampathak22
• linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-pathak/
• x x.com/blackplasma22
• email sjpathak22@outlook.com
• rss /rss.xml

colophon

built in astro with tailwind, mdx, and pagefind. served from github pages. typeset in fraunces (display), newsreader (body), jetbrains mono (mono). dark mode is the default — toggle in the header. forest greens in dark, parchment creams in light. no analytics, no comments, no third-party scripts.

◇ if you spot a mistake, tell me — i'll fix it.