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I'm Boris Dev, a Knowledge Engineer working in messy domains — clinical evidence, legal billing, narrative gaming, manufacturing analytics, and human geography. CV at the bottom.
Elsewhere
- Nobsmed blog — work-in-progress notes on clinical-evidence retrieval and personalized trial matching:
- evidence-to-person-eval — open benchmark for whether Medical AI applies clinical-study findings to heterogeneous people without overgeneralizing
Writing
Essays on the patterns I've seen recur. Some are primarily a way to organize my own learning; I'm not an expert in everything I write about — especially the compiler-design piece.
| # | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beyond RAG: How Chomsky's I-Language and Compiler Design Converge on Knowledge Graphs | LLVM-style IR, Chomsky's I-language, BFO ontology, grammar-first design |
| 2 | What Is Knowledge Engineering, Really? | A working definition built around elicitation, evaluation, and 0→1 modeling in messy domains |
| 3 | Fine-Tuning LLMs Will Restructure Your Data Science Team | How fine-tuning replaces annotation pipelines and the NN-optimization role; the new "fine-tuning analyst" |
| 4 | Why Domain-Specific Language AI Features Fail | The customer-discovery process for niche language AI, and why a Lean Startup approach is required |
| 5 | Language AI Evaluation 101: Know Your User | Why simplistic Ground Truth produces misleading accuracy metrics; cognitive empathy as the iteration loop |
| 6 | Hyper-Local Community Funding: A DAO Alternative to CDFIs | Local digital tokens and DAOs as a delivery mechanism for under-served-neighborhood capital |
| 7 | Inequality with a Spatial View | A note from my 2014 dissertation: the same income data can read as inequality going down or up depending on whether you keep the spatial structure. A spatial view is a graph |
| 8 | CV: Knowledge Engineering in Messy Domains | The IR-compile pattern across clinical trials, legal billing, maritime construction, narrative gaming, and geographic inequality |