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My Astro Blog

All the articles I've posted on my blog.

LLMs as Search Operators

June 7, 2026

What I learned from using DSPy, generated scripts, offline simulators, and GEPA-style evolutionary loops on small optimization challenges.

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Can We Backprop Through a Prompt?

June 7, 2026

A small Gemma 3 270M experiment using WinoGrande, lm-eval, and prefix tuning as a way to reason about prompt-optimization headroom.

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Turning Gemma 4 Into an Embedding Model

June 7, 2026

A research log on causal pooling, LLM2Vec-style masking, NV-Embed-style latent pooling, F2LLM data, accelerator training, and NanoBEIR validation.

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