Richard Djarbeng's Technical Posts
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When LLMs Become Scientific Instruments: Groundsource Flash Flood Research Report
A deep dive into Google's 2.6-million-event flood dataset: what the data shows, what claims hold up, and why the methodology matters more than the dataset itself. Resources: Enriched Dataset |...
How to Break into AI Without a Degree In AI-Aleksa Gordić
Entering artificial intelligence often looks impossible without a master's degree, a PhD, or years inside elite academic research labs. Yet one of the clearest case studies of breaking into frontier...
NASA APOD Has Migrated. Here Is What Is Changing and What Developers Must Do
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is one of the oldest living institutions on the World Wide Web. For over three decades, millions of space enthusiasts, students, researchers, and...
Sveltia CMS is feature complete. Time to switch from Decap CMS
If you run a static site on Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS), Sveltia CMS created by Kyoshino has reached a decisive milestone. Several projects I maintain are handed over to...
Geographic Concentration of Machine Learning Models: How Compute Economics Re-Engineered the AI Map
When you look at where notable artificial intelligence models come from, the global map looks empty. In the 2024 Stanford AI Index Report, researchers tracked 149 notable machine learning systems...
The Six Levels of Autonomous Driving: Architecture, Liability, and the Practical Realities of SAE Levels 0 to 5
Decoding Autonomy: Architecture, Liability, and the Practical Realities of SAE Levels 0 to 5 When car companies advertise driver-assist software, they often blur the line between convenient driver aids and...
Building a Modern Blog with Eleventy 3.x (Liquid Edition)
This is a complete, hands-on guide to building a real blog with Eleventy (also called 11ty), a static site generator: a tool that takes plain files, Markdown posts, HTML templates,...
How Carnegie Mellon Sent Missions to the Moon Without an Aerospace Department
Visitors to Carnegie Mellon's labs expect artificial intelligence, big software systems, and robotics. In the university's planetary robotics space they also find flight-ready moon rovers being prepared for lunar deployment....
Coding the Mean, Median and Mode in Python - TensorTonic
For anyone unfamiliar with TensorTonic, it is often described as the "LeetCode of machine learning", a platform designed for developers to practice algorithms, refine data science techniques, and build machine...
MTN Ghana cuts fibre prices by up to 70%: 100 Mbps Now GH¢299 a Month
Ghanaians complaining about expensive home broadband got substantial relief when MTN Ghana announced a major reduction in home fibre prices, with the revised tariffs taking effect on Wednesday, June 17,...
AI Companies Want to Keep Free AI Models Legal But The Company Behind Claude Wants a Safety Net First.
On July 24, 2026, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and more than 20 other companies and organizations published an open letter, "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," urging Washington not to restrict...
Africa Has the ML Talent But Missing the GPUs.
One challenge I have noticed throughout my academic journey and as a TA is that access to computing resources, especially GPUs, has become a major bottleneck for many students especially...
