Ma, we made it! 🎉 I'm officially a Published AI Researcher. My work on sparse neural retrieval just got accepted to MICES 2026. @krotenWanderung from @qdrant_engine will present: “Fine-Tuning Sparse Neural Retrievers for E-Commerce Is Not That Scary (And Often Worth It)”. Pretty dope (and a bit surreal) seeing research that started with just an idea about SPLADE + hard negative mining turn into published research! Big shoutout to @charles_irl from @modal for the cheap and fast training, and the article from Charles, @jxnlco + @ivanleomk on training dense models that I built this research on. Already thinking about what I should research and publish next @TryArcade.. let me know if you have any fun agent research ideas!