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Writing on machine learning, engineering, and the systems behind AI products.

Tutorials, experiments, and implementation notes written to be directly useful.

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Complex topics are broken into steps, examples, and implementation notes.

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Most posts tie theory back to code, tooling, or product decisions.

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Galton-Watson Process

In this post, we outline the Galton-Watson Process.

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Policy Iteration Algorithm in a Nutshell

Policy Iteration with Maze Example.

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Iterative Policy Evaluation in a Nutshell

Check if an agent is doing the right thing with Policy Evaluation Methods

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RL in a Nutshell

Reinforcement learning is about an agent learning to make better decisions through trial and error to maximize long-term rewards. What does that entail in practice?

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Tech stack for rapid prototyping applications

In this blog I will focus on the ways in which I set up a backend and frontend to do rapid prototyping of full stack applications.

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Logistic Regression with Gradient Descent

Details on how the gradient decent algorithm is implemented.

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Importance of Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Machine Learning

In this blog post I explain how the Maximum Likelihood Estimator is used in Machine Learning.

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Scaling LLMs with Triton Inference Server: A Hands-on Guide

Get hands-on experience with deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale using NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server.

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Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency

In this tutorial we will look at what TF and IDF are and how they can be use to process text data in Machine learning.

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Large Scale Vector Comparison

In this post, we will look at the quora qna dataset and aim to encode and compare all question pairs. The purpose of is to look at a real dataset.

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Comparing Vectors with Cosine Simlarity Function

This tutorial will focus on the math behind text vector similarity using numpy, pytorch, and stentence-transformers libraries in python.

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D3 Tutorial

In this post, I outline-solid the ways in which d3 library works with the <svg> elements.