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Posts in 2025

  • $Single-Flight Pattern

    How the single-flight pattern can prevent race conditions

    sun sketch
  • $Time and Space Complexity Refresher

    Refresher on Big O time and space complexity with interview questions

    big o growth sketch
  • $Containers and Orchestration Refersher

    Refresher for Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration with interview quesions

    container sketch
  • $Object-Oriented Programming Refresher

    Refresher OOP concepts with interview quesions

    car sketch
  • $RAG vs MCP: Complementary AI Approaches

    Understanding the differences between RAG and MCP, when to use each, and how they work together

    documents
  • $Which Loss Function Do LLMs use?

    Exploring Cross-Entropy Loss in Large Language Models.

    fountain sketch
  • $What is Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL)?

    Nesting Power and Flexibility into ML Embeddings

    Matryoshka Babies
  • $2-Hour Streamlit Workshop

    Beginners with a basic understanding of Python. No web development experience is required.

    graph sketch
  • $UE8M0 FP8 Number Format

    Training LLMs without H100 using UE8M0 FP8 number format.

    fp8 sketch
  • $Understanding ML Numerical Formats

    Understanding INT4, INT8, FP16, BF16, and TF32 formats in machine learning - their precision, speed, and memory trade-offs for training and inference.

    number one sketched