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Subhansh

Independent ai researcher and developer
subhansh.dev Joined May 2026
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I Built a Full Raft Consensus Engine in Rust at 17 — Here's Every Gritty Detail I'm 17. This is my first distributed systems project. Raft is the consensus algorithm that powers etcd, Consul, TiKV, and a dozen other production systems. The paper ...
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I got tired of retrieval papers claiming their pipeline is "state-of-the-art" without significance tests, without telling you what dataset they ran on, and without reproducible code. So I built raven-retrievalhttps://github.com/subhansh-dev/raven-ret...
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I'm 17. Last year I was writing drone firmware in C++ and Python. One afternoon my ultrasonic sensor returned null during a landing sequence. The code didn't check for it. The drone tried to divide by zero, the motor controller panicked, and my DJI T...
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How I Built Rumi: An Autonomous Scientific Discovery Engine That Thinks Before It Asks Okay so like hear me out. I know "autonomous scientific discovery" sounds like some buzzword soup that a LinkedIn influencer would drop to farm impressions. But I...
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I Wrapped an 8B Model in 40 Neuroscience Modules and It Started Outperforming GPT-4 Okay, hear me out. I know that title sounds like clickbait. But I have benchmarks, code, and a story about hitting API rate limits at 3am. I'm 17. I built FRIDAY ...
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