william garrow

Writing

Notes from the work

Long-form writeups of the problems behind the projects. The first pieces are in the notebook now; each publishes here and on LinkedIn.

Engineering

Reverse-engineering MATLAB’s undocumented table format

How MCOS hides tables inside HDF5, what it took to decode it, and why the fix belongs to everyone. The full story behind mat73-reader.

In the notebook

Healthcare ML

Your synthetic data is lying to you

A physician caught my demo citing the wrong drug. The pipeline was right; the synthetic record was wrong. What that means for every FHIR project that trusts its test data.

In the notebook

Research

The reading-level floor: why models can’t write at 5th grade

Ask an LLM for 5th-grade prose and it settles near 8th. Measured evidence from MedLit, a matching published finding, and the open question underneath.

In the notebook

Until these land here, the work itself is the writing: the case studies carry the stories and the repos carry the details.

Follow on LinkedIn