the person running this lab
Samarth Saraswat
AI engineer at Tazapay, building fraud and anti-money-laundering detection for cross-border payments. Before that, three-plus years at Microsoft on LLM copilots and agents. IIT Guwahati. Occasionally holds a microphone and tells strangers jokes.
This lab is where I stop saying “someone should test that” and test it myself.
Lab record
- experiments
- 0
- confirmed
- 0
- busted
- 0
- still weird
- 0
- inconclusive
- 0
clean slate.
How stupid experiments work
- 1questionCapture something interesting.
- 2clarifyWhat am I actually trying to understand?
- 3researchExisting evidence and competing views.
- 4hypothesisA working theory I could be wrong about.
- 5experimentDesign it and actually run it.
- 6logDecisions, failures, surprises.
- 7findingsWhat happened, stated plainly.
- 8reflectWhat this changes in my thinking.
- 9next?The next question becomes an experiment.
House rules
- — Curiosity should lead to action.
- — Test ideas instead of just discussing them.
- — A failed experiment is fine if I learn something from it.
- — The process counts as much as the result.
- — Writing is how I think, not content.
- — Show evidence, not manufactured expertise.