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Technical Deep Dives

Go beyond the basics with in-depth technical guides. Explore embedding models, RAG systems, fine-tuning, distributed training, and advanced optimization techniques. Designed for developers, ML engineers, and technical practitioners who want to build and deploy AI systems.

AI Evaluation Metrics: Measuring Model Quality

Intermediate

How do you know if your AI is good? Learn key metrics for evaluating classification, generation, and other AI tasks.

6 min read
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AI Workflows and Pipelines: Orchestrating Complex Tasks

Intermediate

Chain multiple AI steps together into workflows. Learn orchestration patterns, error handling, and tools for building AI pipelines.

7 min read
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Fine-Tuning Fundamentals: Customizing AI Models

Intermediate

Fine-tuning adapts pre-trained models to your specific use case. Learn when to fine-tune, how it works, and alternatives.

8 min read
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Retrieval Strategies for RAG Systems

Intermediate

RAG systems retrieve relevant context before generating responses. Learn retrieval strategies, ranking, and optimization techniques.

7 min read
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Semantic Search: Search by Meaning, Not Keywords

Intermediate

Semantic search finds results based on meaning, not exact keyword matches. Learn how it works and how to implement it.

6 min read
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Temperature and Sampling: Controlling AI Creativity

Intermediate

Temperature, top-p, and other sampling parameters control how creative or deterministic AI outputs are. Learn how to tune them.

6 min read
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Vector Database Fundamentals

Intermediate

Vector databases store and search embeddings efficiently. Learn how they work, when to use them, and popular options.

7 min read
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Advanced RAG Techniques

Advanced

Go beyond basic RAG: hybrid search, reranking, query expansion, HyDE, and multi-hop retrieval for better context quality.

9 min read
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Distributed Training for Large Models

Advanced

Scale AI training across multiple GPUs and machines. Learn data parallelism, model parallelism, and pipeline parallelism strategies.

8 min read
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Model Compression: Smaller, Faster AI

Advanced

Compress AI models with quantization, pruning, and distillation. Deploy faster, cheaper models without sacrificing much accuracy.

7 min read
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Quantization and Distillation Deep Dive

Advanced

Master advanced model compression: quantization-aware training, mixed precision, and distillation strategies for production deployment.

8 min read
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Training Custom Embedding Models

Advanced

Fine-tune or train embedding models for your domain. Improve retrieval quality with domain-specific embeddings.

7 min read
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Training Multi-Modal Models

Advanced

Train models that understand images and text together. Contrastive learning, vision-language pre-training, and alignment techniques.

7 min read
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