Mike McCourt
Why we confuse reading text with analyzing data, and how to stop.
Feb 20, 2026
LLMs make it easy to build features, but hard to build margins. Here’s why — and how to fix it.
Feb 13, 2026
How a “trivial” change yielded a 13× throughput increase.
Feb 7, 2026
A short story about good abstractions colliding
Feb 1, 2026
Strengthening the “lie-detecting” infrastructure of internet time
Jan 23, 2026
Anthropic’s recent results remind us that the quality and traceability of data matter more than quantity.
Jan 14, 2026
The web was designed for documents, and the combination of HTML and CSS still represents that idea at its purest: structure and style, clearly defined and beautifully…
Dec 14, 2025
Macroeconomics, DIY Hardware and AI-Driven Voting Pools
Nov 21, 2025
Kian Ghodoussi
At Sturdy Statistics, our models are probabilistic, structured, and deeply recursive — Bayesian DAGs that encode how information flows through the data. Our models are not…
Oct 28, 2025
Early in our company’s life, we built everything around modern data frameworks — until we realized the simplest, most reliable tool had been in front of us all along.
Oct 21, 2025
At Sturdy Statistics, our mission has always been to make sense of complex data — whether it comes from genomes or text. Our core technology began as something unusual: a gen…
Oct 14, 2025
In Part I, we saw how hypernetworks let neural nets adapt to new datasets by learning embeddings and generating dataset-specific weights. That approach worked surprisingly…
Oct 7, 2025
Neural nets assume the world is flat. Hierarchical data reminds us that it isn’t.
Oct 1, 2025
I was surprised to discover that nearly three-quarters of our storage was near-zero float32s — and motivated to take advantage of this sparsity.
Sep 21, 2025
Software reliability has improved dramatically thanks to a popular trend called shifting left. By pushing testing, security checks, and quality assurance earlier in the…
Sep 5, 2025
It’s common knowledge but the juxtaposition is shocking.
Aug 1, 2025
Sturdy Statistics builds interpretable AI models that understand structure, quantify uncertainty, and work at any scale.
Jul 5, 2025
Michael McCourt
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