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LLM Foundations
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Explain how transformers generate text
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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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Inference Optimization in Large Language Models
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Inference Optimization in Large Language Models
In the previous articles, we learned how Large Language Models are built and how they generate text. Continue reading on Medium »
Why Most People Get Mediocre Results from Claude and ChatGPT (And It Has Nothing to Do With the AI)
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Most People Get Mediocre Results from Claude and ChatGPT (And It Has Nothing to Do With the AI)
The gap between people who get exceptional AI output and people who get generic AI output isn’t talent, budget, or which model they use… Continue reading on Med
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building PromptX: Shipping LLM Prompts Without Deploying Code
For the last few months I kept running into the same annoying wall. Every time I wanted to change a single line of a system prompt, I had… Continue reading on M
Unlocking the LLM’s Hidden Knowledge Engine: The 3X Matrix Expansion in FFN and SwiGLU
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Unlocking the LLM’s Hidden Knowledge Engine: The 3X Matrix Expansion in FFN and SwiGLU
Why Large Language Models inflate their matrix dimensions by 3x just to immediately shrink them back down — and the hardware math behind… Continue reading on Me
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. From recommendation systems and… Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. From recommendation systems and… Continue reading on Medium »
I Know What an LLM Is, But What Is a World Model?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
I Know What an LLM Is, But What Is a World Model?
Over the past few years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become one of the most recognized technologies in Artificial Intelligence… Continue reading on Medium
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Sonnet 5 vs GLM-5.2 vs everyone: how to pick the cheapest LLM API in 2026
Two frontier-class models just launched weeks apart — Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 (closed, $2/$10 per 1M launch pricing) and Z.AI's GLM-5.2 (open-weight, MIT, ~
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
JSON-Schema masks can block needed tool calls
Grammar‑based token masks can silently block the very function calls an LLM agent must emit. A lightweight two‑pass inference hack sidesteps the problem without
The Invisible Cage: What the Evolution from Claude Sonnet 4.6
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Invisible Cage: What the Evolution from Claude Sonnet 4.6
By Supat Charoensappuech, in collaboration with Gemini 3.1 Pro — Google AI Studio (in normal mode, 3/7/2026) Continue reading on Medium »
The Best Vector Database in 2026: Qdrant vs Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector
Dev.to · Darshit Radadiya 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Best Vector Database in 2026: Qdrant vs Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs pgvector
I've run production RAG systems on four of these. Here's the comparison I wish someone had written...
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini 2026: Which AI Is Right for You?
Quick verdict Continue reading on Medium »
Why AI Doesn’t Actually Read Your Words (And What It Does Instead)
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why AI Doesn’t Actually Read Your Words (And What It Does Instead)
Imagine we hand someone a phone book who has never seen the alphabet. They cannot read a single name. But if we tell them “page 512 means… Continue reading on M
Claude Fable 5: Güvenlik Duvarlarıyla Herkese Açılan “Efsane Sınıfı” Yapay Zekâ
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Claude Fable 5: Güvenlik Duvarlarıyla Herkese Açılan “Efsane Sınıfı” Yapay Zekâ
Anthropic’in şimdiye kadar genel kullanıma sunduğu en yetenekli modeli sahnede. Continue reading on Medium »
Building Instant Translation Assistance for Book Translations with Python and LLMs
Dev.to · 龚旭东 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Building Instant Translation Assistance for Book Translations with Python and LLMs
How we integrated real-time phrase translation feedback into our AI-powered book translation...
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How LangChain, LangGraph, and SGLang Actually Work
Plus ANN search, Google TPUs, and GPUs for deep learning, decoded Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How LangChain, LangGraph, and SGLang Actually Work
Plus ANN search, Google TPUs, and GPUs for deep learning, decoded Continue reading on Medium »
Can You Trust an LLM Judge?
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Can You Trust an LLM Judge?
Part 2 in the Local AI Code Review series Continue reading on Medium »
Can You Trust an LLM Judge?
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Can You Trust an LLM Judge?
Part 2 in the Local AI Code Review series Continue reading on Medium »
Use GPT, Claude, and Gemini with the OpenAI SDK — one base_url, any language
Dev.to · chenxiao5580-cmd 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Use GPT, Claude, and Gemini with the OpenAI SDK — one base_url, any language
If you're juggling separate SDKs and API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, here's a simpler...
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Real Problem Isn’t AI Memory — It’s Project Memory
People often say AI has a memory problem. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Unstructured.io: The Data Preprocessing Pipeline Converting Any Document to LLM-Ready Chunks — 2026 Guide
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Solon 4.0 ChatModel: A Practical Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
Dev.to · Solon Framework 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Solon 4.0 ChatModel: A Practical Guide to Building LLM-Powered Applications
Learn how to integrate LLMs into Java applications using Solon 4.0's ChatModel API. Covers sync/streaming calls, conversation memory with ChatSession, and pract
The age of local LLMs is here
Dev.to · darkpenguin 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The age of local LLMs is here
Half a year ago, I wanted to see for myself what can we currently have with local LLMs. I went down...
How AI‍ Learned‌ to‌ Render Photorealistic​ Worlds in Real-Tim‍e And‌ What Th‍at​ Means for the…
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
How AI‍ Learned‌ to‌ Render Photorealistic​ Worlds in Real-Tim‍e And‌ What Th‍at​ Means for the…
NeRF is not a r⁠enderin‌g technique. It‌’s a c‍oo​rdi‍nate network trained on a d‌ifferentiab‌le i​mage fo‌r⁠ma​tion m⁠odel. 3D‌ Gaussian… Continue reading on A
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Tool We Built to Measure AI Visibility Couldn’t Find Itself
Two weeks before we launched Relevyn, I opened ChatGPT and asked it a question I already thought I knew the answer to. Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Synthetic Data for a Notes-to-FHIR Model
The goal is a small language model that reads a healthcare provider’s note and outputs the matching FHIR, the structured JSON standard for… Continue reading on
The Tool We Built to Measure AI Visibility Couldn't Find Itself
Dev.to · Tabor Bachelor 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
The Tool We Built to Measure AI Visibility Couldn't Find Itself
Two weeks before we launched Relevyn, I opened ChatGPT and asked it a question I already thought I...
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Improving Auto model setting: making smart model choices based on user needs, model capabilities…
1. Problem formulation from first principles Continue reading on Medium »
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Bigger Context Windows Don’t Improve AI Accuracy — Context Strategy
You’re Solving the Wrong Context Problem. Here’s the One That Actually Matters. Continue reading on Beyond The Algorithm »
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Why Bigger Context Windows Don’t Improve AI Accuracy — Context Strategy
You’re Solving the Wrong Context Problem. Here’s the One That Actually Matters. Continue reading on Beyond The Algorithm »
Reddit r/artificial 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Anthropic pivots - LLMs are a commodity now.
The AI companies know it and they're all making the same desperate pivot. Midjourney. OpenAI. And this week, Anthropic. All three are now pharma companies. Anth
Vanna AI (El estándar de la industria para Text-to-SQL)
Dev.to · JULIO SAMUEL CORTEZ MAMANI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Vanna AI (El estándar de la industria para Text-to-SQL)
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Training transformers where every layer W = V·Uᵀ from initialization reveals a corpus-determined optimal rank - looking for arXiv endorser (cs.LG) [D]
Reddit r/MachineLearning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
Training transformers where every layer W = V·Uᵀ from initialization reveals a corpus-determined optimal rank - looking for arXiv endorser (cs.LG) [D]
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Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo
IA local vs ChatGPT para empresas: qué usar y cuándo Como consultor especializado en IA, he visto cómo las empresas se ven abrumadas por la variedad de opciones
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Positional Encodings — Deep Dive + Problem: Binary Cross-Entropy Loss
A daily deep dive into llm topics, coding problems, and platform features from PixelBank . Topic Deep Dive: Positional Encodings From the Tokenization & Emb
The Four Families of Post-Training — Part 1: Supervised Fine-Tuning
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Four Families of Post-Training — Part 1: Supervised Fine-Tuning
How a raw language model learns to actually behave Continue reading on Medium »
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Open Source AI Gap Map
Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in Februar
Your LLM isn't watching the video. It's reading subtitles.
Dev.to · HUANGCHIHHUNG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Your LLM isn't watching the video. It's reading subtitles.
Paste a YouTube link into ChatGPT and ask "what's this video about?" — you'll get an answer. But...
How to Make Money with Claude AI in 2026: 7 Proven Ways to Turn AI into Income!
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
How to Make Money with Claude AI in 2026: 7 Proven Ways to Turn AI into Income!
AI isn’t just a tool anymore. It’s a money-making machine. Continue reading on Medium »
NE-Agent: Building an AI agent that actually speaks Khasi, Garo, Mizo
Dev.to · B Nyalang 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
NE-Agent: Building an AI agent that actually speaks Khasi, Garo, Mizo
So this has been eating my nights for months and it's finally out. Northeast India has 220+...
Opus + RAG vs Fine-tuned LLM + RAG: Two Approaches to Legal AI — LEX vs Harvey
Dev.to · overthelex 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Opus + RAG vs Fine-tuned LLM + RAG: Two Approaches to Legal AI — LEX vs Harvey
Harvey spent $100M+ and 10B tokens fine-tuning a case law model with OpenAI. We connected Opus to 100M+ court decisions from EDRSR via RAG. Both paths work — bu
SOTA LLM Local Deployment, OpenAI Fine-tuning Platform, and Google A2UI Generative UI Standard
Dev.to · soy 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
SOTA LLM Local Deployment, OpenAI Fine-tuning Platform, and Google A2UI Generative UI Standard
SOTA LLM Local Deployment, OpenAI Fine-tuning Platform, and Google A2UI Generative UI...
AI Is Evolving Faster Than Ever — Here’s How to Stay Ahead Instead of Falling Behind.
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Is Evolving Faster Than Ever — Here’s How to Stay Ahead Instead of Falling Behind.
Discover why AI is changing faster than ever, how it impacts your career, and the practical skills you need to stay ahead in the age of… Continue reading on Med
TechCrunch AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might en
Claude Fable 5, Explained: Why Anthropic Ships its Most Powerful Model in Two Versions
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Claude Fable 5, Explained: Why Anthropic Ships its Most Powerful Model in Two Versions
The same model now exists twice — one version anyone can use, one version almost nobody can. Here’s what Fable 5 actually is, in plain… Continue reading on Towa
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Cuando el auditor también necesita una auditoría
Los modelos de lenguaje comienzan a utilizarse para revisar respuestas generadas por otros modelos. Continue reading on Medium »
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Building Word Embeddings with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 1: Setting Up the Word Embedding Model
In this article, we will explore how to implement word embeddings using PyTorch and Lightning AI. The implementation is based on the same example that we used i