Writing on software engineering, AI, and systems — project write-ups, build logs, and things learned along the way.https://analyticalbyte.com/en-ushttps://analyticalbyte.com/ai-patient-actor/https://analyticalbyte.com/ai-patient-actor/My full-stack work on AI Patient Actor, a DALI Lab platform simulating patients for clinical interview practice — now used by 3,000+ students in 45+ countries.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://analyticalbyte.com/linkvt-dali-writeup/https://analyticalbyte.com/linkvt-dali-writeup/Building LINK~VT for Vermont's Department of Labor at the DALI Lab: vector-search resource recommendations instead of a checkbox intake form, plus coach scheduling.Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://analyticalbyte.com/ai-augmented-search/https://analyticalbyte.com/ai-augmented-search/Building a semantic search engine over Simple English Wikipedia with sentence embeddings and FAISS, then adding local LLMs for query rewriting, re-ranking, and RAG.Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://analyticalbyte.com/setting-up-arch-on-mac/https://analyticalbyte.com/setting-up-arch-on-mac/Installing Arch in UTM on Apple Silicon, fixing an Archboot rootfs boot failure with a QEMU -cdrom flag, and building glibc from source to get valgrind running.Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT