Sometimes a shift happens in the world that is so quiet, so gradual, and so deceptively convenient that we only recognise its weight once it begins shaping our thinking, our behaviour, and our children. Artificial Intelligence is one of those shifts. People frame it as progress. As empowerment. As a great equaliser. As the moment…
Category: Machine learning
Teaching My Daughter with an LLM We’re Building Together (And the High-Level Problem We Solved)
I’ve always believed the best way to learn something is to build it. So I decided to teach my eldest daughter, Khawlah, Python not with textbooks or tutorials, but by building something real together: a personalized large language model. It’s not a toy. We’re building a fully functional private LLM system with FastAPI, Supabase for…
Teaching Machine Learning to My 11-Year-Old
The other night, while setting up a Docker container and trying to explain vector embeddings to my 11-year-old daughter, I paused mid-sentence and smiled. Not because she got it (which she kind of did), but because I realized this is the kind of moment I dreamed of: learning, teaching, struggling, and sharing the journey of…
The Night My Kids Met the Librarian Robots
It started like most evenings in our home a bit of noise, a lot of laughter, and that post-supper chaos where everyone has something very important to say right before bedtime. Khawlah, our oldest, had just finished brushing her teeth when she caught me near the doorway. “Papa,” she asked, “how do those smart robots…