Inside a Medical Cyclotron Target: A Lay Summary
How a proton beam makes the isotopes for cancer scans, why the target fluid can start to breathe on its own, and the model I built at TRIUMF to predict it.
Things I'm building and thinking about. A few are here — more coming soon.
How a proton beam makes the isotopes for cancer scans, why the target fluid can start to breathe on its own, and the model I built at TRIUMF to predict it.
Every body pulls on every other. One simple law, no tidy answer, and a live GPU simulation you can run in your browser.
Forecasting sounds simple, but real business data is messy. A tour of the real-world challenges that make time series forecasting hard: missing data, sparsity, volatility, external drivers, multiple seasonality, and hierarchy.
When generalization quietly costs you — the hidden tax of reaching for the abstraction too early.
Notes on agentic systems, edge ML, and recovering the hidden structure in messy real-world signal.