Taha
@moji249.bsky.social
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Techie and NLP researcher. Georgia Tech alum.
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I wrote this raw piece in 2022 but never published it. It's about my time in GT's MSCS program, working with advisors who shaped my trajectory in ways both generative and damaging, and what it cost me.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Reflections on my time at GT's MSCS program.docx
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky My experience at Georgia Tech (GT) was, for better or worse, life-changing. I had many ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2thHMhQVqklJIYQb8yszRcPOPP_reLM/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111348712507045058715&rtpof=true&sd=true
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I wrote this raw piece in 2022 but never published it. It's about my time in GT's MSCS program, working with advisors who shaped my trajectory in ways both generative and damaging, and what it cost me.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Reflections on my time at GT's MSCS program.docx
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky My experience at Georgia Tech (GT) was, for better or worse, life-changing. I had many ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2thHMhQVqklJIYQb8yszRcPOPP_reLM/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=111348712507045058715&rtpof=true&sd=true
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I have an MS in CS from Georgia Tech. I spent years in NLP research. Now I pick groceries part-time at Walmart. Long story.
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The Blue Collar Machine Learning Researcher: The Human API in the Aisle
This piece reframes retail labor as an error-correction and provenance layer in a drifting cyber-physical system, and it decomposes the…
https://medium.com/@tahaymerghani/the-blue-collar-machine-learning-researcher-the-human-api-in-the-aisle-bd9bd82793ab
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Stanford’s Probability and Stats CS109 triggered a trauma response in me.
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I just had a conversation with my younger brother (26, college grad, Sudanese living in the UAE). He is struggling to find a job. I advised him to be a mechanic and ditch his degree in business.
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So what now? Where is Taha?
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The Quiet Addiction Behind My Public Success
I sold my PlayStation in November 2025.
https://medium.com/@tahaymerghani/the-quiet-addiction-behind-my-public-success-8015573b698b
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I think what I need is decoupling my self-worth from performance perfection and building tolerance for uncertainty without seeking external confirmation.
add a skeleton here at some point
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I am done letting research be a footnote on my grad school story. Here is the technical work I have done and how it changed to today’s LLM research 👇🏾
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Claude
@anthropic.com
is not sycophantic. It can be judgmental though. What’s going on in the AI personalization space?
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I started accepting my intelligence today. I am done making myself small. I really am.
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The elephant in the room. There, I said it.
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The Dark Side of Academia: Mental Health, Mentorship, and the Unspoken Struggles of an NLP…
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.  — Fyodor DostoevskyI entered the Master’s in…
https://medium.com/@tahaymerghani/the-dark-side-of-academia-mental-health-mentorship-and-the-unspoken-struggles-of-an-nlp-c25adbd9a2e6
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