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Fine Tuning LLMs - learnings from the DeepLearning SF Meetup
11 years ago, NASA marked the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program.
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Llama 3 Secrets Every Engineer Must Know
Data, training procedures and compute are the secrets of big labs and available only to the GPU rich.
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AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 - Field Notes
(San Francisco • 3-5 June 2025 • ≈3 000 attendees • 18 parallel tracks)
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Founder Mental Software
While most VCs debug your pitch, I focus on understanding your System Prompt.
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Are Semantic Layers the treasure map for LLMs?
Semantic layers are not new, they started in 1991, when BusinessObjects patented the semantic layer. It’s a great concept but it hasn’t really taken…
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Agentic systems: panning for gold
In the rush to harness AI's potential, it’s essential to distinguish between groundbreaking innovations and overhyped promises.
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7 Key Questions - learnings from my founder story
How to vet a potential co-founder
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LLMs Reliability - learnings from the CTO of Persana.ai
More than a decade ago, when I studied echo state neural networks, AI was mainly in Academia and the main tool I had was Matlab.
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Learnings from the founder of Observe.ai
Doing sales as an engineer
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The Unfiltered Truth About Early-Stage M&A: Lessons from Founders Who've Been There
Early-stage M&A is not something people talk about in public, but many are thinking about it, especially in the bloodbath of AI.
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Learnings from the founders of Graphite and WorkOS
Engineering Leadership Community Summit
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A hack to be productive and avoid burnout
A lesson from an ML engineer
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