Welcome to Ando's Logs

👋 Hi - I'm Alex Andonian (aka Ando) and these are my personal "training" logs.

As a deep learning researcher and engineer, I spend a lot of time inspecting data and debugging training logs. Recently, I wondered why I don't do the same for my own neural network. So here we are!

Jokes aside, I'm hoping this will become a growing collection of articles, tutorials, and guides about deep learning, AI, programming, and technology. By documenting my own learning trajectories, I hope it can help others (human or otherwise) on their fine-tuning journeys.

Featured

• Multistep Reasoning Agents (with GRPO & RLEF) - Project Euler Edition

  Published:Mar 23, 2025 |  at 02:38 AM |  in 21 min read

  Converting chat LLMs into reasoning agents through GRPO and reinforcement learning from execution feedback — achieving performance improvements on Project Euler's algorithmic challenges with multi-step reasoning, tool use, and code execution.

• Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Multimodal AI with DeepResearch

  Published:Mar 2, 2025 |  at 04:27 AM |  in 19 min read

  How OpenAI's DeepResearch reveals what industry labs aren't sharing about next-gen AI assistants

• o3 and the Future of Science

  Published:Dec 23, 2024 |  at 10:04 PM |  in 23 min read

  o3 and Human-AI scientific collaboration

• Back to Backprop

  Published:Dec 12, 2024 |  at 06:42 AM |  in 29 min read

  A review of backpropagation, the workhorse of deep learning.

• Can AI Write about AI Personality With Personality?

  Published:Nov 23, 2024 |  at 07:33 AM |  in 30 min read

  Should AI have "Personality" or will "Bland and Mid" suffice?

• o1 and Reasoning

  Published:Nov 20, 2024 |  at 12:53 AM |  in 62 min read

  Organizing research presumably related to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.

• All you need (to know) about attention

  Published:Nov 4, 2024 |  at 02:35 AM |  in 35 min read

  A highly compressed guide to quickly refresh (mostly) all you need to know about attention mechanisms in deep learning.

Recent Posts

• What Work Feels Like in 2026

  Published:Feb 7, 2026 |  at 05:00 PM |  in 10 min read

  A personal reflection on how AI has fundamentally changed the way I approach work, ideas, and ambition.

• Swirling Thoughts on AI, LLMs, Novel Hypothesis Generation and Crypto?

  Published:Apr 3, 2025 |  at 09:45 PM |  in 14 min read

  In this post, I swirl my own thoughts on the very topic of swirling thoughts in the context of AI, LLMs and their potential for novel hypothesis generation. I ground this discussion in some of the other ongoing parallel lines of thoughts/investigation including GRPO, reinforcement learning, the future of science and scientific peer review and the notion of being able to "purchase" scientific innovation.

• Pandas Primer

  Published:Jan 15, 2025 |  at 01:15 AM |  in 5 min read

  A rapid review of the Pandas library for the impatient data scientist.

• Python and Pandas and P-values, Oh My! A Statistical Journey

  Published:Jan 14, 2025 |  at 01:15 AM |  in 26 min read

  A rapid refresher on the basics of statistics and how to apply them in Python.