<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mir Nafis Sharear Shopnil — Blog</title><description>AI researcher working on LLM reasoning, mechanistic interpretability, and agentic systems. Applying for PhD positions (Fall 2026).</description><link>https://namikazi25.github.io/</link><language>en</language><item><title>MERIT, in my own words</title><link>https://namikazi25.github.io/mir-nafis-sharear-shopnil/blog/merit-notes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://namikazi25.github.io/mir-nafis-sharear-shopnil/blog/merit-notes/</guid><description>A plain-English tour of the MERIT pipeline — why we built it, what went wrong the first three times, and what I&apos;d do differently.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>papers</category><category>agents</category><category>misinformation</category></item><item><title>Hello, world.</title><link>https://namikazi25.github.io/mir-nafis-sharear-shopnil/blog/hello-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://namikazi25.github.io/mir-nafis-sharear-shopnil/blog/hello-world/</guid><description>A brief intro to this blog — what it is, why it exists, and what to expect.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>meta</category></item></channel></rss>