Computer Science @ Notre Dame
Hi, I’m Caden.
I’m trying to understand the infrastructure behind AI—how it works, the politics forming around it, and how it should be governed.
Latest writing
All essaysWho Gets the GPUs?
How access to scarce compute is becoming a political question.
Who Is Accountable When the Agent Acts?
As agents move from suggesting to acting, our frameworks for consent and liability strain. A taxonomy of agentic accountability grounded in real interface decisions.
Evaluation Harnesses Are an Ethics Problem
Safety isn't a post-training checkbox — it's a measurement problem. What belongs in an eval suite before you ship, and why the harness itself encodes values.
Latency Budgets for Real-Time ML Serving
Inference isn't just model quality — it's queues, batching, and tail latency. Notes on designing serving paths where milliseconds actually matter.
Core themes
Three layers of the same question
01
Infrastructure
The chips, networks, memory, software, and energy systems that make modern AI possible.
02
Politics
Who controls scarce compute, where it is built, and how nations and firms compete around it.
03
Governance
How technical systems become accountable institutions—and where responsibility should sit.
Building
All projectsInfrastructure
Market Pulse
A high-throughput streaming pipeline that ingests live financial news, runs quantized FinBERT sentiment and entity extraction, and computes a real-time sentiment shock signal.
Infrastructure
Agora
A fault-tolerant, sharded edge-network information retrieval engine built from scratch in Go — custom BM25 ranking, no Elasticsearch or Lucene.
Governance Tools
Aweh
AI-powered immigration guidance for F-1 students — hybrid RAG with personalized answers grounded in USCIS policy documents and user profiles.
Notes
All notesInfrastructure
Why everyone keeps talking about HBM
The memory beside the GPU is becoming as strategically important as the GPU itself.
Infrastructure
What actually is an AI cluster?
A cluster is not a pile of accelerators. It is a coordinated machine whose network often decides how useful it is.
Politics
A thought about sovereign AI
Countries want domestic AI capacity, but ownership and genuine operational independence are not the same thing.
About
I’m a Computer Science student at Notre Dame, learning by building systems and writing through the technical and institutional questions around AI infrastructure.
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