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Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
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Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
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Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
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If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
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Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
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Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
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Why Rust Isn't Killing C++ And a consideration for choosing a language
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No One Should Be GPU Poor For everyone to have access to AGI, everyone must also have access to the compute to use it
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What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
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I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
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Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
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Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
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What Apple Intelligence Means for You "We think you're gonna LOVE it"
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The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
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Why Machine Learning Terminology is So Confusing And definitions for the most important terms you should know
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Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
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Run Your Own Race What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
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Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
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Call of Duty has a data science problem A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
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Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
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Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
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Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
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Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
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OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
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The Fastest Way to Get Up to Speed on Machine Learning Fundamentals for Free Announcing the ML Road Map-Turbo
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Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
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Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
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Weekly Backend #4: 62 Total Resources Apple’s LLM OpenELM, GPT-4-Turbo, Phi-3, Grok-1.5 Vision, and more
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OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
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LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
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OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
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Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
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Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
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The Metrics Machine Learning Engineers Care About That Modelers Don't And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
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Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
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Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
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Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
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Godmother of AI Warns Against Regulation, Apple Intelligence System Prompts, Faster and Cheaper AI,... Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
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The State of AI in China Is China winning the race to AGI?
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What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases...
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The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases open models, Google generates audio for video, and more
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
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Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
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One Year of Society's Backend The lessons I've learned along the way
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How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
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The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
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Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
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Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
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Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
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Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
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JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
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Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
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1000+ AI Agents Make a Civilization, xAI Creates the Largest Supercomputer in 4 Months, Possible AI... Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-09
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Backend Biweekly #2: 112 Total Updates and Resources Details on Metas training clusters, analysis of ML competitions in 2023, AI's impact on water...
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Pelosi opposes SB 1047, New LLM Training Paradigms, Prompt Caching to Save 90% of API Costs, and... Machine learning resources and updates 8/19/2024
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New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
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AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
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AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
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AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24] Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
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Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
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MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
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Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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MatMul-free Machine Learning Can Improve Efficiency, Excellent Foundational Learning Resources, SSMs... The top 10 most important updates of last week: 7/8/24
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A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve...
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Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve decided to try out separating paid/free updates. I’m constantly trying new ways to make information consumption easier for you while working within the confines of the platforms...
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Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
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Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
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AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
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Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
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What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
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Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
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You Are What You Eat: Digital Edition Why who you follow is more important than who follows you
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss....
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Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss. If you want all the ML updates from X, follow me there. Mamba + Sliding Window Attention = SAMBA with Efficient Unlimited... China runs to be one of top global players in AI model...
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Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
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An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
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We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
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LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
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Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to... Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
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Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
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3 Key Principles for AI at Scale [Part 2] The key to how large AI companies outcompete
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Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
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An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
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Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
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Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
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I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
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Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
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I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
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A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
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A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
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A Privacy Review: Google I read Google's privacy policy for you
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Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
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How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
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5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
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Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
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The Slow, Painful Death of the Free Content Creator It's happening as you read this
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The Attention Thief: Machine Learning as a Monetization Weapon How your greatest asset is silently stolen by technology every day
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Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
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AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
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Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
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Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
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ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
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ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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ML for SWEs 3: AI Can't Be copyrighted, Don't Fall for Misinformation, and Stay Safe Online Machine learning for software engineers 3-21-25
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Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
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ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
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ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
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ML for SWEs 6: RAG Is Not Dead Machine learning for software engineers 4-11-25
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How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025 An overview of important updates and why they're important
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Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
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