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$The Agentic AI Hype
The Agentic AI Hype
The Overhyped Buzzword That’s Just AI With To-Do Lists.
May 14, 2025
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Oz Akan
Pinned Posts
$AWS AI Practitioner Certification Notes
AWS AI Practitioner Certification Notes
Feb 20, 2025
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Oz Akan
$Dear Interviewer
Dear Interviewer
Feb 16, 2025
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Oz Akan
$Best Async Document for Typescript
Best Async Document for Typescript
Jan 5, 2021
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Oz Akan
Recent Posts
$Embedding Selection for RAG Systems
Embedding Selection for RAG Systems
At the heart of every effective RAG implementation lies a crucial decision: which embedding model to use.
May 12, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Technical
$Why the Right Work Doesn’t Need Willpower
Why the Right Work Doesn’t Need Willpower
Wake up earlier. Push harder. Grind longer.
May 5, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Leadership & Growth
$Diffusion Based Language Models
Diffusion Based Language Models
Instead of writing sequentially, DLMs start with something like noisy or scrambled text and gradually denoise it over several steps.
May 1, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Technical
$Cognitive Mechanisms of Self-Perception
Cognitive Mechanisms of Self-Perception
How motivational biases, selective memory, and other mental processes contribute to an enhanced view of ourselves.
Apr 27, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Leadership & Growth
$Avoiding Stack Overflows with Trampoline Functions
Avoiding Stack Overflows with Trampoline Functions
When you can't tail call, you need to trampoline your way out in TypeScript to handle deep recursion without hitting stack overflow errors.
Apr 25, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Technical
$Beyond the Battlefield: The OODA Loop
Beyond the Battlefield: The OODA Loop
Explore how the OODA Loop, a dynamic decision-making framework, can be applied beyond military strategy to enhance decision-making in everyday life and business environments.
Apr 22, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Leadership & Growth
$The Power of Getting Lost in a Story
The Power of Getting Lost in a Story
Explore narrative transportation, the psychological phenomenon where we become completely absorbed in a story, losing track of time and place.
Apr 15, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Leadership & Growth
$Quantum Resistance: Standing Strong Against Future Threats
Quantum Resistance: Standing Strong Against Future Threats
Do we already have quantum-resistant encryption?
Apr 11, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Technical
$Understanding the K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) Algorithm
Understanding the K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) Algorithm
A simple yet effective machine learning algorithm for classification and regression.
Apr 7, 2025
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Oz Akan
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Technical
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