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Machine Learning

Why Federated Learning Is Harder Than the Tutorials Make It Look

The gap between a federated averaging demo notebook and a system that survives real hospitals, spotty networks, and …

May 18, 2026 2 min
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Teaching

What I Changed After a Decade of Teaching Algorithms

Ten years of CS 210 taught me that the biggest predictor of student success isn’t talent — it’s how quickly …

Mar 2, 2026 2 min
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Research

Explainability Is Not a Feature You Bolt On Afterward

Post-hoc explanation methods are useful, but treating explainability as a wrapper around an already-trained black box …

Jan 14, 2026 2 min