About

Hi, I'm Furkan — a data scientist working on NLP and machine learning, currently moving from Istanbul to Zurich, where I'm starting an MSc in Informatics (AI) at the University of Zurich. Before that: corporate banking ML at DenizBank, a computer engineering degree in Istanbul, and a published paper comparing LLMs and BERT for text classification.

This site runs on a simple premise: the interesting things happen between fields. So alongside the technical work, you'll find long-form essays on depth psychology, history, and philosophy; film and book reviews from a running log I keep obsessively in Notion; and write-ups of the systems I build to think with — a Notion second brain, custom Claude skills, a self-designed German-learning workflow.

Current preoccupations: Jung's account of the modern psyche, the population genetics of Anatolia, why some films earn their silences, and making language models useful for things beyond chat.

The site itself is part of the experiment — content flows here automatically from my Notion workspace, a pipeline I've written about here. Code for everything, including this site, is on GitHub.

If any of this intersects with your world, I'm reachable at salmanfurkan28@gmail.com.