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How OpenAI Uses LLMs to Explain Neurons Inside LLMs
Explaining Neuron Behavior at Scale + Neuron Viewer
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How Google DeepMind's AlphaGeometry Reached Math Olympiad Level Reasoning By Combining Creative LLMs With Deductive Symbolic Engines
How open-sourced Neurosymbolic AI (Neural Networks + Symbolic Systems) is revolutionizing automated theorem proving
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[Jupyter Notebook] Build Your Own Open-source RAG Using LangChain, LLAMA 3 and Chroma
Constructing your local and zero cost RAG pipeline using free, open-source tools
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What is Retrieval Augmented Generation? A Visual Guide On RAGs in the Context of LLMs
Without Fine-tuning, Integrate Custom Information and External Data Sources To Give LLMs Relevant Context To Hallucinate Less And Be More Accurate
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How Netflix Uses Machine Learning To Decide What Content To Create Next For Its 260M Users
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"Attention, Please!": A Visual Guide To The Attention Mechanism [Transformers Series]
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How Apple Performs Person Recognition Without Photos Leaving Your iPhone
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What is an Eigenvector?: A Visual Guide to This Fundamental Concept From Linear Algebra
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What is QLoRA?: A Visual Guide to Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Sometimes smaller is better. How QLoRA combines efficiency and performance.
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Confident Product Decisions with Data: Inside Spotify’s Risk-Aware A/B Testing Framework
Learn how Spotify’s multi-metric evaluation strategy can enhance your A/B testing and drive innovative product decisions.
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What is an Eigenvector?: A Visual Guide to This Fundamental Concept From Linear Algebra
Discover how eigenvectors can simplify complex data, enhance machine learning models, and solve real-world problems
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What is LoRA?: A Visual Guide to Low-Rank Approximation for Fine-Tuning LLMs Efficiently
Why LoRA Is Essential For Model Fine-Tuning
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Inside AlphaFold: DeepMind’s Recipe For Success
How To Build Teams Destined For Breakthroughs
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The Challenges of Building Effective LLM Benchmarks
Current state of LLM evaluation and gaps that need filling with comprehensive and high quality leaderboards
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Why You Should Not Strive For Perfection: Perfect is the Enemy of Good
How Perfectionism Slows Down Software Development Progress And How To Avoid It
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"Clustering Together": A Visual Guide to the K-Means Algorithm
K-Means Clustering And How It Helps Uncover Hidden Patterns In Data
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Transformers and the Power of Positional Encoding [Transformers Series]
How Transformers Find Order In Data
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