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LLM Foundations
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Explain how transformers generate text
Prompt Craft
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Write zero-shot and few-shot prompts
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Call LLM APIs with function/tool use
Fine-tuning LLMs
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Prepare fine-tuning datasets
Multimodal LLMs
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Use GPT-4V / Claude Vision for image understanding
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Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
On-Device AI Just Got Real
Apple's newest on-device model carries about 20 billion parameters, and on any given request it fires maybe one to four billion of them. That gap — 20B stored,
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works
Google's NotebookLM is great. But handing your research notes, PDFs, and meeting transcripts to Google's cloud is a hard sell for a lot of people — especially w
RAG vs. the LLM Wiki: Retrieve Every Time, or Compile Once?
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG vs. the LLM Wiki: Retrieve Every Time, or Compile Once?
Andrej Karpathy’s deceptively simple “LLM wiki” reframes what a knowledge base even is — and it might quietly change how you feed AI your… Continue reading on M
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Kurumsal CRM Sistemlerinde LLM Entegrasyonu: Mimari Bir İnceleme
Son birkaç haftadır kurumsal CRM sistemlerine LLM entegrasyonu üzerine mimari araştırmalar yapıyorum. Continue reading on Medium »
The Token Generation Speed is Ramping Up
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Token Generation Speed is Ramping Up
750 token/second is the new aim and why token speed will define the next era Continue reading on Coding Nexus »
Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
Interconnects 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models
I Spent 30 Days Forcing ChatGPT to Handle My Client Work (Here’s What It Actually Made Me
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Spent 30 Days Forcing ChatGPT to Handle My Client Work (Here’s What It Actually Made Me
About eight months ago, I hit a wall. Hard. I was staring at a glowing screen at 2:14 AM, surrounded by half-empty coffee cups, trying to… Continue reading on M
Artificial Personhood: What It Is and Why AI Status Is Not Only a Legal Question
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Artificial Personhood: What It Is and Why AI Status Is Not Only a Legal Question
AI personhood is not the same as Artificial Sapiens. The real question is not whether AI should become a legal person, but how Artificial… Continue reading on M
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
# Building a Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Resume Optimization Engine with Cascadeflow and Hindsight
Most AI-powered resume builders are fundamentally passive. You upload a flat PDF, type in a job description, and the LLM spits out some… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a RAG Pipeline From Scratch — Here’s Everything I Learned (and the Bug That Taught Me the…
I spent two sessions building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline from zero to a working FastAPI server. No tutorials. Just… Continue reading on Med
Medium · Python 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a RAG Pipeline From Scratch — Here’s Everything I Learned (and the Bug That Taught Me the…
I spent two sessions building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline from zero to a working FastAPI server. No tutorials. Just… Continue reading on Med
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Built a RAG Pipeline From Scratch — Here’s Everything I Learned (and the Bug That Taught Me the…
I spent two sessions building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline from zero to a working FastAPI server. No tutorials. Just… Continue reading on Med
Reddit r/MachineLearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Evaluating long-term memory limits in stateless LLM chatbots — feedback needed [D]
Hi all, I’m working on a research project exploring how stateless LLM-based chatbots handle long conversations and whether important earlier information is stil
Prompt Injection for Account Deletion (PortSwigger Lab)
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Prompt Injection for Account Deletion (PortSwigger Lab)
This might be different from my usual style of posting, as I am absolutely fascinated by trying this prompt injection lab on an LLM model… Continue reading on M
ChatGPT for academic writing — what works, what doesn’t
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ChatGPT for academic writing — what works, what doesn’t
I am a published AI researcher. I know exactly how these models work. Here is my completely honest breakdown of where ChatGPT helps and… Continue reading on Med
Not Only Text: Can AI Think Like Einstein Through Visual Thought Experiments?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Not Only Text: Can AI Think Like Einstein Through Visual Thought Experiments?
An analysis of “Einstein World Models” and the push to teach Large Language Models the art of visual, counterfactual reasoning. Continue reading on Medium »
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
If you’ve been learning about Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve probably come across terms like LoRA, QLoRA, and PEFT… Continue reading on Medium »
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
If you’ve been learning about Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve probably come across terms like LoRA, QLoRA, and PEFT… Continue reading on Medium »
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LoRA and QLoRA Explained from Scratch: The Intuition Every AI Engineer Should Know
If you’ve been learning about Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve probably come across terms like LoRA, QLoRA, and PEFT… Continue reading on Medium »
Chai, Code, and Vectors: Understanding Embeddings and Document Readers from Scratch!
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Chai, Code, and Vectors: Understanding Embeddings and Document Readers from Scratch!
Hey everyone! Grab a hot cup of cutting chai, open up your laptops, and let’s talk about something absolutely mind-blowing. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/deeplearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Transformer Positional Encoding
How frequencies create unique position vectors,, in Transformer.. submitted by /u/Ok_Pudding50 [link] [comments]
Encoder vs Decoder: Why BERT and GPT Work Differently — Part 22
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Encoder vs Decoder: Why BERT and GPT Work Differently — Part 22
After learning about Transformers, Self-Attention, and Positional Encoding, I kept seeing two words everywhere: Encoder and Decoder. At… Continue reading on Med
Beyond Naïve RAG: The Evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Simple Search to Autonomous…
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Beyond Naïve RAG: The Evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Simple Search to Autonomous…
“Why did my AI confidently give me the wrong answer, even though the correct document was sitting in the database?” Continue reading on Medium »
I Made Claude Cowork Smarter by Connecting It to NotebookLM (No Claude Code or Terminal Required)
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Made Claude Cowork Smarter by Connecting It to NotebookLM (No Claude Code or Terminal Required)
Do more with Cowork by connecting it to NotebookLM (+3 new use cases) Continue reading on Artificial Corner »
I Made Claude Cowork Smarter by Connecting It to NotebookLM (No Claude Code or Terminal Required)
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Made Claude Cowork Smarter by Connecting It to NotebookLM (No Claude Code or Terminal Required)
Do more with Cowork by connecting it to NotebookLM (+3 new use cases) Continue reading on Artificial Corner »
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Hypothetically speaking...
Would it not be possible to create crowd sourced, truly open sourced distilled LLMs with a simple wrapper around command line based AI services that exist today
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
The goal is to build the simplest system that answers correctly, reliably, and economically. Continue reading on Medium »
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
The goal is to build the simplest system that answers correctly, reliably, and economically. Continue reading on Medium »
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
The goal is to build the simplest system that answers correctly, reliably, and economically. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/artificial 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What AI capability do you think is still surprisingly underdeveloped?
We've seen huge progress in coding assistants, image generation, reasoning, and voice AI over the last few years. But what's one capability that you expected AI
When all recommending Claude then this “Sakana AI” Happened.
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When all recommending Claude then this “Sakana AI” Happened.
A Tokyo startup just matched Anthropic’s best models without ever touching them. I’m still sitting with that. Continue reading on Everyday AI »
The Mechanical Turk of Modern AI: How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) Actually…
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Mechanical Turk of Modern AI: How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) Actually…
You type a prompt into ChatGPT. It responds with a thoughtful, measured, and remarkably polite answer. It does not get angry. It does not… Continue reading on M
Why can’t we make our own Claude/Gemini from Scratch?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why can’t we make our own Claude/Gemini from Scratch?
I recently started enjoying reading ML-related news, research papers, and seeing all these powerful pieces of hardware by NVIDIA, IBM, and… Continue reading on
Reddit r/artificial 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Which model is the most worthy of the big names?
Hi all! I'm a little bit confused by all the benchmark results, the cheatings and whatnot, so I was wondering about which model do you guys think is the best on
Building a Production-Ready LLMOps Platform: From Concept to Reality
Medium · DevOps 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building a Production-Ready LLMOps Platform: From Concept to Reality
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring how organizations can adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale without compromising on… Continue reading on Medi
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Intelligence as Geometry: Finding the Space Where Thinking Becomes Simple
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has developed mainly through a combination of linear algebra, statistics, optimization… Continue reading on Med
10 ChatGPT Prompts I Use Every Day as an AI Engineer
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
10 ChatGPT Prompts I Use Every Day as an AI Engineer
These aren’t generic prompts. They’re the ones that actually changed how I work Continue reading on Medium »
Server Sent Events powering GenAI
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Server Sent Events powering GenAI
The 20-Year-Old Web Standard Powering the GenAI Revolution! 隣 The AI revolution did not need a new protocol. It just needed an old one… Continue reading on Medi
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cutting LLM Costs 40x Without Killing My p99 Latency
Cutting LLM Costs 40x Without Killing My p99 Latency I'll be honest — when I first saw the bill for our OpenAI usage last quarter, I almost choked on my coffee.
Reddit r/learnprogramming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How has AI changed how you do Data science tasks?
I sometimes write Python scripts to parse/scrape HTML. eg: Tally up data and create a frequency hash table of results. Like using BS4 to extract data and then t
A Natural Language Search Engine Over S3 Documents
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
A Natural Language Search Engine Over S3 Documents
I Built a Natural Language Search Engine Over S3 Documents as a Learning Project — Here’s Everything I Learned Continue reading on Medium »
LLM Agents, The Way Nobody Told You — Part 3: What Even is a Tool?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LLM Agents, The Way Nobody Told You — Part 3: What Even is a Tool?
This is Part 3 of the series “LLM Agents, The Way Nobody Told You.” ◀ Part 2: Single Shot Prompting Continue reading on Medium »
When a Graph Learned to Think: Building an End-to-End GraphRAG Application with Neo4j
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
When a Graph Learned to Think: Building an End-to-End GraphRAG Application with Neo4j
How combining knowledge graphs, vector search, and large language models changed the way we build AI applications Continue reading on Medium »
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Assistant Is Actually Worth Paying For?
Dev.to · Sumaira Tabassum 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: Which AI Assistant Is Actually Worth Paying For?
After months of daily use, here's what surprised me most. A few months ago, I found myself paying...
Reddit r/MachineLearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I shrank a transformer until every number fitted on the screen and made the weights editable [R]
I've been teaching myself how LLMs actually work, not at the API level, but down to the matrix multiplications. To force myself to really understand the forward
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Thought Prompt Engineering Was About Asking Better Questions. I Was Completely Wrong.
Everyone using any LLMs on day to day to basis are negotiator and every time you’re providing prompts to any LLMs, you’re negotiating with… Continue reading on
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What Is ChatGPT? A Simple Guide for Beginners
Freshness note: Updated for 2026, when ChatGPT is no longer just a chatbot for simple questions but a practical AI assistant for writing… Continue reading on Me
LLM Quantization Under the Hood: Fitting LLaMA 3.1
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
LLM Quantization Under the Hood: Fitting LLaMA 3.1
A senior systems perspective on squeezing 16GB models into 5GB of VRAM without breaking accuracy. Continue reading on Medium »