About the Author: Arif D. Santosa

 


Arif-D-Santosa

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Editor at teknologiai.biz.id — I translate AI buzzwords into benchmarks you can trust. (Yes, we love transformers. No, not the robot kind… well, sometimes.)

Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia • Last updated: October 7, 2025
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Why I Write About “Decoding the Future with Smarter Machines”

AI is powerful—but power without clarity helps no one. I focus on separating signal from noise: practical evaluations, transparent methods, and clear guidance for builders, students, and curious readers.

Site in two lines:We explain AI with evidence, not hype. Grounded reviews, reproducible tests, real-world caveats.

Qualifications & Relevant Experience

  • Hands-on evaluations: latency/throughput tests, quality scoring vs. baselines, cost & energy estimates, safety red-team prompts.
  • Model literacy: LLMs, diffusion, vision transformers, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, fine-tuning vs. adapters.
  • MLOps & deployment: inference configs, caching, tokenization quirks, monitoring for drift & abuse signals.
  • Responsible AI: bias checks, privacy first (PII minimization), misuse scenarios, transparent disclosures.
  • Writing for clarity: plain-English explainers with code snippets only when they add value.

What I Cover

AI Tool & Platform Reviews

Capabilities vs. claims, evals, pricing trade-offs, deployment notes.

Research, Decoded

Readable summaries + why it matters for real products.

Build & Ship

Design patterns for retrieval, guardrails, and evaluation loops.

AI & Society

Safety, bias, policy shifts, workforce impact—without the doom spiral.

Privacy & Security

PII handling, local vs. cloud trade-offs, data retention realities.

Beginners Welcome

Fundamentals, glossaries, and “start here” guides that don’t assume a PhD.

Editorial & Testing Methodology

  • Primary-source first: official docs, papers, release notes. Secondary commentary only as support.
  • Reproducible evals: publish prompts, seeds, model/version IDs, hardware/runtime, temperature/top-p.
  • Baselines: compare against strong non-AI and classic ML baselines (because “AI better than nothing” is not a benchmark).
  • Safety pass: light red-teaming for misuse; note filters, jailbreak resistance, and content boundaries.
  • Privacy stance: no uploading sensitive data; clearly label data retention & training-on-user-data policies.
  • Update cadence: scheduled audits; faster updates on version bumps, deprecations, or policy changes.
  • Independence: no pay-to-rank. If a post is sponsored or includes affiliates, it’s labeled and doesn’t change conclusions.

Public Review Rubric

Weights: Claims vs. Evidence 25% • Performance & Reliability 25% • Privacy & Safety 20% • Cost & Efficiency 15% • Transparency & DX 10% • Accessibility 5%

  • Evidence: demos are cute, numbers are better—eval scores, ablations, and known failure modes.
  • Performance: quality vs. strong baselines, variance across seeds, long-context stability.
  • Privacy/Safety: data handling, on-device options, guardrails, red-team results.
  • Cost/Efficiency: $/1k tokens or per task, latency, memory/VRAM footprint, energy hints.
  • Transparency/DX: docs quality, versioning, rate limits, support, export options.
  • Accessibility: regional availability, pricing for students/edu, a11y in UI.

Important Notes & Safety

Educational content only

  • No legal/financial/medical advice: consult qualified professionals for regulated decisions.
  • Security first: do not paste secrets, PII, or client data into third-party tools without a DPA and clear retention terms.
  • Fair use & licenses: verify content and model licenses before commercial use.
  • Results vary: stochastic outputs can change across runs and versions—always validate.

Editorial Independence & Disclosures

We do not sell rankings or coverage. Sponsorships/affiliates, if present, are clearly disclosed and do not influence our testing or verdicts.

Optional Expert Review

 

Reviewed by: {{Reviewer Name}}, PhD — optional
Scope: methodology sanity check (no product endorsements).

Add a qualified reviewer when available to strengthen E-E-A-T. Remove this block if unused.

Contact the Author

Email: author@teknologiai.biz.id

Media & partnerships: editorial@teknologiai.biz.id

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/arifdsantosa

Site Snapshot (Shortened “About Us”)

  • Mission: make AI understandable, testable, and responsibly deployable.
  • Vision: smarter machines that serve people—safely, transparently, and efficiently.
  • We publish: reviews, research explainers, build guides, and ethics notes you can actually use.

Sources & Citations

Articles link to papers, official docs, and release notes. This author page summarizes profile, methodology, and the public rubric used across reviews.

Corrections & Feedback

Notice something off? Email us. We aim to review and update within 5–10 business days.

 

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