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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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Reddit r/ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
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prompt: An authentic, completely ordinary iPhone photo taken by an employee at work. Somewhere in the scene is a professionally designed warning sign telling pe
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Medium · JavaScript 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT millions of questions. Whether it’s writing code, debugging applications, learning a new concept… Continue reading on
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Journey of a Prompt Inside ChatGPT
Every day, millions of people ask ChatGPT millions of questions. Whether it’s writing code, debugging applications, learning a new concept… Continue reading on
Prompt Engineering: Getting the Words Right, and the Hole Underneath
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Prompt Engineering: Getting the Words Right, and the Hole Underneath
Continuing the series where I share what I’m learning about AI engineering each week — including the bits that genuinely surprised me. Continue reading on Mediu
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Biggest, baddest model to fill 144GB VRAM + 120GB RAM to the brim, regardless of speed
I'm trying to round out my quiver of daily driver models for my personal harness. Right now I drive qwen3.6 27b for balanced code and gemma4 31b for human inter
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
From the limitations of early LLMs to the rise of AI agents — understand why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard for… Continue reading on
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained: The Complete Guide Every AI Engineer Should Read
From the limitations of early LLMs to the rise of AI agents — understand why the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard for… Continue reading on
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The 2026 AI Model Release Race: Every Major LLM Launch You Need to Know
Key Takeaways Claude Sonnet 5 landed June 30, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro at $2/$10 per million tokens — close to Opus 4.8 at 40% of its standard price. It's
Dev.to AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Call GPT, Claude, and Gemini from one API key — a 3-step setup
If you want to try GPT, Claude, and Gemini without signing up for three separate platforms and juggling three billing dashboards, here's a 3-step setup using an
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
Dev.to · RileyKim 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math.
So here's what happened: open-Source LLM APIs Beat Self-Hosting. Here's the Math. Last quarter I sat...
Explaining attention mechanisms without math
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Explaining attention mechanisms without math
Modern Language models like Claude, Google Translate, and other AI assistants can understand and generate responses to questions with… Continue reading on Mediu
The Day I Stopped Treating ChatGPT Like a Search Engine and Started Using It Like a Teammate
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Day I Stopped Treating ChatGPT Like a Search Engine and Started Using It Like a Teammate
Stop using ChatGPT like a search engine—start using it like your smartest teammate. Continue reading on Medium »
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
[audio.cpp] VibeVoice 1.5B released — 90-min podcast in 22.95 min, 4.08x real-time, 2.86x faster than Python without quantization. Native C++/ggml
I’m the author of audio.cpp, a C++/ggml runtime for local audio models. I just added VibeVoice 1.5B support and wanted to share the benchmark because long-form
Your LLM Doesn’t Pick Stocks — It Remembers Them
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Your LLM Doesn’t Pick Stocks — It Remembers Them
The dirty secret of AI stock picking lives inside the model’s weights. Full write-up, code, and benchmarks on jiripik.com. Continue reading on Medium »
Word Representation
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Word Representation
This article is a reader companion to the Word Representation chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. It can be read… Continue reading on M
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
When Cosine Similarity Approaching Singularity in Google Search AI Mode
##Ontological Infiltration, Vector Collapse, and the Strategic Dilemma of Unified Knowledge Graphs Continue reading on Medium »
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Dev.to · Hector Hernandez Cruz 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building a Production RAG Pipeline with Hybrid Retrieval and LangChain
Most RAG tutorials get you 70% of the way there. This is about the other 30% that actually matters in...
Mamba3 in Three Animations
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Mamba3 in Three Animations
The three changes that turn Mamba-2 into Mamba-3 — each one watched, not just described. Two of the three animations are driven by real… Continue reading on Tow
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
It trained on the world, then paid $1.5 billion to settle the pirated books. Its terms say you cannot use Claude to build a competitor… Continue reading on Towa
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Anthropic’s War on Open-Source AI, or Is It Just Afraid?
It trained on the world, then paid $1.5 billion to settle the pirated books. Its terms say you cannot use Claude to build a competitor… Continue reading on Towa
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Quoting Anthropic
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Work across research, engineering, data, evals, and product to make models better at acting in real…
The Research Pillar: Reinforcement Learning, Reasoning, and Environments Continue reading on Medium »
You Use ChatGPT Every Day… But Do You Actually Know How It Works?
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
You Use ChatGPT Every Day… But Do You Actually Know How It Works?
From tokens and embeddings to transformers, temperature, and inference, here's the complete picture in simple words with diagrams and code. Continue reading on
[AI] Practical QLoRA Fine-tuning: Axolotl & Unsloth | SLM Playbook
Dev.to · Tuấn Anh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
[AI] Practical QLoRA Fine-tuning: Axolotl & Unsloth | SLM Playbook
← Series hub ← Previous | Next → Full-parameter fine-tuning of a large language model is a luxury....
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
The Best Prompt Is the One You Never Have to Rewrite
For a long time, I thought getting better results from AI meant getting better at writing prompts, so I did what most people do. I’d write… Continue reading on
Encoder VS Decoder Bert VS GPT
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Encoder VS Decoder Bert VS GPT
They share the same architecture. The only real difference is which tokens each one is allowed to look at. Continue reading on Towards AI »
Medium · ChatGPT 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
10 ChatGPT Prompts That Will Save You Hours Every Day
Artificial intelligence is only as useful as the instructions you give it. Continue reading on Medium »
Embeddings Simplified
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Embeddings Simplified
1 — What is embeddings? Continue reading on Medium »
I built a tool that cuts Claude/ChatGPT token usage by 97% — here's how it works
Dev.to · Rohith Matam 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
I built a tool that cuts Claude/ChatGPT token usage by 97% — here's how it works
The Problem You're debugging a bug. You open Claude. You paste 10 files. You hit the context...
Serverless AI in a Browser Tab: Java WebAssembly + Local WebGPU LLMs
Dev.to · vishalmysore 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Serverless AI in a Browser Tab: Java WebAssembly + Local WebGPU LLMs
A deep technical whitepaper on building a zero-infrastructure RAG architecture where the...
BLEU: The Metric That Taught Machines to Translate
Medium · Deep Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
BLEU: The Metric That Taught Machines to Translate
Before deep learning, before transformers, before ChatGPT — there was BLEU. Here’s why it still matters, how it works, and where it falls… Continue reading on M
BLEU: The Metric That Taught Machines to Translate
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
BLEU: The Metric That Taught Machines to Translate
Before deep learning, before transformers, before ChatGPT — there was BLEU. Here’s why it still matters, how it works, and where it falls… Continue reading on M
Evaluating Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into ROUGE
Medium · Data Science 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Evaluating Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into ROUGE
How do you measure whether an AI actually understands language? One classic answer is ROUGE and it’s more nuanced than it looks. Continue reading on Medium »
Evaluating Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into ROUGE
Medium · NLP 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Evaluating Foundation Models: A Deep Dive into ROUGE
How do you measure whether an AI actually understands language? One classic answer is ROUGE and it’s more nuanced than it looks. Continue reading on Medium »
Simon Willison's Blog 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more
Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Medium · Programming 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Applications that process large amounts of text often run into duplicate content. While exact duplicates are easy to detect using hashes… Continue reading on Me
Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Semantic Deduplication with OpenAI Embeddings and pgvector
Applications that process large amounts of text often run into duplicate content. While exact duplicates are easy to detect using hashes… Continue reading on Me
Does AI Dream? A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Hallucination
Medium · Machine Learning 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Does AI Dream? A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Hallucination
Why language models might be doing something close to dreaming — and what that means for how we train, evaluate, and one day secure them Continue reading on Med
Does AI Dream? A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Hallucination
Medium · Cybersecurity 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Does AI Dream? A Mechanistic Hypothesis for Hallucination
Why language models might be doing something close to dreaming — and what that means for how we train, evaluate, and one day secure them Continue reading on Med
Don't Let Your LLM Wing It: Building a Knowledge Base That Actually Knows Things
Dev.to · hugolesta 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Don't Let Your LLM Wing It: Building a Knowledge Base That Actually Knows Things
A field guide to provisioning a Bedrock Knowledge Base on Aurora pgvector with Terraform, then keeping it in sync with a GitHub Actions workflow that ships docs
An LLM Doesn’t Know Your Data. RAG Gives It the Right Page
Medium · RAG 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
An LLM Doesn’t Know Your Data. RAG Gives It the Right Page
An LLM only knows what it was trained on. That’s a snapshot of the past, and it stops there. It doesn’t know today’s news, and more… Continue reading on Medium
Building LSTMs with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 7: Resuming Training with Checkpoints
Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Building LSTMs with PyTorch and Lightning AI Part 7: Resuming Training with Checkpoints
In the previous article, we used TensorBoard to analyze the training process. Based on the graphs, we...
How AI Learns with Less Labeled Data
Medium · AI 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
How AI Learns with Less Labeled Data
Most people think machine learning is mainly about choosing the best model. Continue reading on Medium »
Comparing Sarvam-30B and Qwen2.5–14B on Spider Text-to-SQL: An Active-Parameter Perspective
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Comparing Sarvam-30B and Qwen2.5–14B on Spider Text-to-SQL: An Active-Parameter Perspective
A controlled comparison on the Spider benchmark, scored by execution accuracy. Active-parameter count tells you more than the number in a… Continue reading on M
Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus without the Opus bill
Medium · LLM 🧠 Large Language Models ⚡ AI Lesson 1d ago
Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus without the Opus bill
Claude Sonnet 5: The New Default Worker Tier Continue reading on Medium »