Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)

How to Train an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs

How to Train an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs

Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems

Building an agentic workflow for my daily news with MCPs, Q, and tmux

An LLM‑as‑Judge Won't Save the Product–Fixing Your Process Will

An LLM‑as‑Judge Won't Save Your Product–Fixing Your Process Will

FAQ on Writing: How I got started, why I write, who I write for

Frequently Asked Questions about My Writing Process

Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs

A Spark of the Anti-AI Butlerian Jihad (On Bluesky)

Patterns for Building LLM-Based Systems and Products

Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (a.k.a. LLM-as-Judge)

Some Paradoxical Rules of Writing

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)

How to Run a Weekly Paper Club (and Build a Learning Community)

Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More

My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide

AlignEval: Making Evals Easy, Fun, and Semi-Automated

AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated

Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-as-Judge

Building the same app using various web frameworks

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (a.k.a. LLM-as-Judge)

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

Cursor sends data to their servers even when you use local models

Prompting Fundamentals and How to Apply Them Effectively

How to Train a Million Context LLM

What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs

Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)

Building an AI Coach to Tame My Monkey Mind

LLM Evals That Do and Don't Work

Don't mock machine learning models in unit tests

Synthetic Data for Finetuning: Distillation and Self-Improvement

Language Modeling Reading List (To Start Your Paper Club)

Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products

Some Intuition on Attention and the Transformer

Should MPT-7B, fine-tuned on 197k books, have commercial license?

Open-LLMs for Commercial Use

More Design Patterns for Machine Learning Systems

Keeping Track of Affordable Language Models, Cult and More

How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines

What to Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help

Testing data and machine learning pipelines

Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries

Ghost knowledge of applying machine learning

Write Weekly 15-5s

Machine learning papers, blogs, and practitioner interviews

Writing better by answering why, what, how

What I wish I knew about onboarding

Questions to ask hiring managers in an interview

ApplyingML – Papers, Guides, and Interviews with Machine Learning Practitioners

Papers, Guides, and Interviews with Machine Learning Practitioners

What I Learned from Writing Online – For Fellow Non-Writers

The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start Without Machine Learning

Practical system design for recommendations and search in industry

Melting Iron: How to Lose $2b in One Day

Gojek, Tokopedia to form combined company Goto once $18b merger is finalized

How to Live with Chronic Imposter Syndrome

Chinese regulators consider levying $975m fine against Alibaba

How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation

Singapore's bubble facility lets travelers bypass quarantine

When Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage, Local Companies Follow Suit

Feature Stores – A Hierarchy of Needs

The Air Force Is Having to Reverse Engineer Parts of Its Own Stealth Bomber

Nvidia Redesigns Graphics Cards to Limit Their Use in Ethereum Mining

Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta

The Algebra of Wealth

Donald Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial by Senate

Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, and Who Gets Them? The Algorithms Decide

OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks (Kindly Disregard Toxic Language)

Price of silver surges as Reddit traders find new target

The Focus to Say No (2011)

Military seizes control in Myanmar

Examining Apple's staggering $111.4B holiday quarter by the numbers

How San Francisco's school board is infected by politics

Pricing and Packaging and the developer buyer – 4 insights from SaaS IPOs

The Ex Ante Likelihood of Bubbles [pdf]

Bitcoin White Paper

The Guide to a Successful Monthly Goal Review

Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC

Is Writing as Important as Coding?