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  <span class="mark">Sparsh <b>Sharma</b></span>
  <a class="gh" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec">GitHub ↗</a>
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    <p class="hero-mark">Melbourne · Student · Builder</p>
    <h1>Hi, I'm Sparsh. I like making careful things — and I want them to <em>help.</em></h1>
    <div class="deva-stamp">सत्यमेव जयते</div>
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      Engineering &amp; business student at RMIT. Muay Thai, music, art, and code.
      Trying to build things that are honest enough to be trusted.
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    <p class="eyebrow">Hello</p>
    <h2>A short, honest <em>introduction.</em></h2>

    <p class="lead">
      I'm a maker at heart — happiest when I'm learning something hard and turning it
      into something real that someone can actually use.
    </p>

    <p>
      I'm studying <strong>BH111 at RMIT</strong> — a double degree in Electronic &amp; Computer
      Systems Engineering (Honours) and Business. I chose both on purpose: I love understanding
      how a thing works all the way down to the hardware, and I care just as much about how it
      reaches people and earns their trust. The engineering teaches me to be precise; the business
      side keeps me honest about whether the work is actually useful to anyone.
    </p>

    <p>
      Outside the screen, a few things keep me steady:
    </p>

    <ul class="loves">
      <li><span class="k">Muay&nbsp;Thai</span><span class="v">The discipline I lean on most. It's taught me to stay calm under pressure, take a hit, and get back up — which turns out to be most of engineering too.</span></li>
      <li><span class="k">Music &amp; Art</span><span class="v">Where my ideas get room to breathe. I think the best technical work has a bit of craft and taste in it, not just correctness.</span></li>
      <li><span class="k">Learning</span><span class="v">I genuinely can't stop. Maths, retrieval systems, ancient texts, how a small business actually runs — if it's hard and real, I want to understand it.</span></li>
      <li><span class="k">Making things</span><span class="v">Code is my favourite material. I like shipping small, careful tools that solve a real problem for a real person.</span></li>
    </ul>

    <p style="margin-top:1.6rem">
      For what it's worth: I captained a cricket club to a championship, I'm a certified open-water
      diver, and I spent a couple of years in customer-facing work that taught me people come before
      product. I try to bring that same care into everything I build.
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    <p class="eyebrow">Why I build</p>
    <h2>I want my work to leave the world a little more <em>trustworthy.</em></h2>

    <p class="lead">
      Right now, AI is being trusted faster than it's being tested. That worries me — so it's
      where I've pointed my work.
    </p>

    <p>
      Most of what I do comes down to one quiet idea: <strong>don't claim what you can't prove.</strong>
      My main project, <a href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/falsify-eval">falsify-eval</a>, is a small
      open-source tool that catches AI systems which look right but aren't — and I gave it away under
      an open licence on purpose, so it can become a shared standard rather than something I sell.
      Good methodology helps more people when it's free.
    </p>

    <p>
      The same care goes into the products. <a href="https://siteiq-iota.vercel.app">SiteIQ</a> exists
      to take the spreadsheet-and-lost-message chaos out of running a small operations business — the
      kind of unglamorous tool that genuinely gives a small team their evenings back.
    </p>

    <p>
      And the work isn't only for people who can pay for it. Through
      <a href="https://spalsh-spec.github.io/bhardwaj-and-sons/">Bhardwaj &amp; Sons</a> — the family
      house I build under — I'm committing a standing share of everything I do to putting AI tools in
      the hands of non-profits and underserved communities, starting in India and Australia. The names
      and the audited figures get published. Nothing said that can't be verified — that's the whole point.
    </p>

    <div class="pull">
      "When my own results fail, I publish that too. The retraction is what earns the rest of the numbers their weight."
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    <p class="eyebrow">What I'm building</p>
    <h2>A few things I've shipped.</h2>

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        <h3>falsify-eval</h3>
        <p>An open-source falsification harness that catches retrieval and ranking systems which look right but aren't. v0.1.6, on PyPI, Apache 2.0.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/falsify-eval">View on GitHub →</a>
      </div>
      <div class="work">
        <h3>Vāk-Kaṇaja &amp; the research line</h3>
        <p>A sovereign Sanskrit retrieval engine — 3-channel fusion (FAISS + BM25 + prosodic) grounded in Pāṇini's grammar, with >2× nDCG@5 over the baseline on Sanskrit benchmarks.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/vak-kanaja">View on GitHub →</a>
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        <h3>Akasha Pantheon</h3>
        <p>An empirical study on structured-output adherence across model scales — and the prompting framework it produced. Small models follow schema precisely but hallucinate; larger models cite real papers but bend the format. Data published.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/akasha-pantheon">View on GitHub →</a>
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        <h3>Niche Intelligence</h3>
        <p>A creator-intelligence tool that scores YouTube content via fuzzy logic, mines patterns behind the winners, then actively tries to falsify each pattern before trusting it. Surviving signals become ready-to-shoot content briefs.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/niche-intelligence">View on GitHub →</a>
      </div>
      <div class="work">
        <h3>swaraj-poly-agent</h3>
        <p>An autonomous Polymarket prediction trader using Hurst exponent regime detection and corrected half-Kelly bet sizing. Runs every 15 min, has daily-loss circuit-breakers, and ships a self-refreshing P&amp;L dashboard. Default is dry-run.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec/swaraj-poly-agent">View on GitHub →</a>
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        <h3>SiteIQ</h3>
        <p>Run a commercial cleaning business from one screen — sites, contractors, clean records and risk alerts, all in sync. Live on Vercel with a real Supabase backend.</p>
        <a class="link" href="https://siteiq-iota.vercel.app">Open the app →</a>
      </div>
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    <p class="more">
      I also collaborate with <strong>RMIT's Mathematics Department</strong> (under Prof. Lewi Stone),
      building learning resources and rebuilding the department's site so good teaching is easier to reach.
      &nbsp;<a href="https://spalsh-spec.github.io/proof/">Full proof of work →</a>
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    <p class="eyebrow">Writing</p>
    <h2>Notes from the bench.</h2>
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      <li>
        <a href="/blog/corpus-drift-trap.html">The corpus drift trap: why your RAG's nDCG is probably lying to you</a>
        <span class="when">1 May 2026</span>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="/blog/wiring-up-dead-code.html">Wiring up dead code: how I found +1.9% nDCG sitting unused in my own repo</a>
        <span class="when">1 May 2026</span>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="/blog/dossier-to-validated-lift.html">From dossier prediction to validated lift: 8 of 10 items shipped</a>
        <span class="when">1 May 2026</span>
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    <p class="more"><a href="/blog/">All posts →</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp; <a href="/feed.xml">RSS</a></p>
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    <h2>Say hello.</h2>
    <a class="cta" href="mailto:sparshsharma219@gmail.com">Get in touch →</a>
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      I'm always up for a conversation about honest AI, low-resource languages, Muay Thai, or building
      something good. &nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/spalsh-spec">GitHub</a> · <a href="mailto:sparshsharma219@gmail.com">sparshsharma219@gmail.com</a>
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