About

I’m Agata Migalska. I’m a climber, I’ve been obsessed with maps since childhood, and I work in GenAI systems. The three are more connected than they sound.

Maps gave me my first sense of how the physical world gets abstracted and encoded. Climbing gave me a reason to care about how it gets modelled, processed, and perceived. That pulled me into a PhD and postdoc in Computer Science — computer vision, visual perception, and the strange question of whether aesthetics can be measured computationally.

This blog is a diary of the thoughts and revelations that accumulated over those years. Some I tackled as a researcher. Some as a developer. Many are still half-formed. The thread running through all of them is the same: how things connect, how structure hides inside apparently unrelated domains, and what it tells us.

I have an abstract mind and a somewhat absurd sense of humour. Both show up in the writing.

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