https://tariqshams.com This is my portfolio and blog. https://tariqshams.com/blog/fly-plays A walkthrough of Google's role in mapping a fruit fly's nervous system, and how I used that wiring to build a browser experiment with Space Invaders, Tetris, and a controller learning from scratch. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/score-coupled-narrative-poisoning A proposal for why autonomous research systems should separate trust in a verified artifact from trust in the explanation attached to it. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/determinism-in-transformer-based-language-models Temperature zero seems deterministic. Floating point arithmetic and dynamic batching explain why real inference systems can still disagree. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/llm-vs-harness Large Language Models are a useful tool that can help us with several tasks. But your llm isn't writing to your filesystem. We need to build harnesses around them to make them useful. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/nvidia-gtc-2026 Reflecting on my time at NVIDIA GTC 2026, winning the Vibe Hack Hackathon, and deep dives into Agentic AI, Inference Engineering, and more. Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/building-a-image-editing-pipeline Building a Image Editing Pipeline with Qwen Image-Edit and Qwen-Image-Layered Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/so-you-want-to-learn-ai A guide to make the transition from Software Engineering to AI Engineering Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/timing-attacks Efficient code is normally what we professional software engineers strive for, but sometimes it could make us vulnerable to timing attacks. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://tariqshams.com/blog/recursion-part1 A technique that is often neglected, Recursion can be a beautiful way to solve certain classes of problems. Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT