https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/ Notes and write-ups on things I've built. en-us https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/teaching-a-robot-not-to-stop/ https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/teaching-a-robot-not-to-stop/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hand-tuning two numbers for every motion in every autonomous routine got old, so I derived them from the distance of each motion instead. https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/the-random-forest-that-made-it-slower/ https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/the-random-forest-that-made-it-slower/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT My mental health classifier was built on an assumption about where inference time goes. Measuring it properly showed the assumption was backwards. https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/notes-on-learning-data-science/ https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/notes-on-learning-data-science/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Unlearning the urge to jump straight to a model, what training data leaves unsaid, and why I implement algorithms from scratch before using a library. https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/what-i-learned-at-paths-up/ https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/what-i-learned-at-paths-up/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Building a Parkinson's wearable at Rice taught me less about sensors than about the question every engineer should ask: who is this for? https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/why-i-love-stem/ https://ayaangoswami.dev/writing/why-i-love-stem/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Minecraft redstone, the moment coding started to feel like a new language, and why the unsolved problems are the interesting ones.