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With new AI frameworks, model updates, and prompt engineering techniques dropping (almost) every single week, we get this constant feeling of being behind. (I do,…
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At the end of our first article on the AI Evals mini series we left a small elephant in the room: fuzzy matching works great…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
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If you are a software engineer stepping into the world of LLMs and AI engineering, you have likely encountered this or a very similar frustrating…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
6 min read
At the end of our One Hot encoding article, we left a small elephant in the room: what happens when your categorical column has 50…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
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If you have spent any time in the machine learning space, you have inevitably scratched your head around the concept of backpropagation. It is the…
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One of the things that may be bothering you if you followed #1 and #2 is the fact that we never talked about what happens…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
8 min read
If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ll know that in the first post we built a simple ML model to predict diabetes. We kept things…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
12 min read
Have you ever started your morning with an angry email from a user complaining that a key page on your app is throwing an error?…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
6 min read
Everybody uses AI for almost everything these days. If you’ve been paying attention to the backend space recently, you’ve probably heard of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)…
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By Carlos Rodrigues
11 min read
Everybody uses AI for almost everything these days. From helping shaping ideas to the recommendation systems that tells us which movie to watch next, it’s
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