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Learnings, reflections, paper summaries, and notes.

[Learnings] 001 - AI Applied (Prompt Engineering and Evaluation)

The two main ways AI Engineers boost their outputs — Prompt Engineering and Evaluation.

[Reflections] 001 - The Thinking Game

Watching The Thinking Game about DeepMind and processing where humans fit in the age of AI.

[Learnings] 000 - AI Applied (Foundations)

A practical guide to working with AI models — API basics, tokens, embeddings, and system prompts.

[Reflections] 000 - Reset

Getting back to writing. Building. Doing.

[Note to Self]

A quick note about getting back to writing and learning.

[PapersSummarized] Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition (2015)

K. He et al. — How residual connections solved the degradation problem in deep networks. Rating: 3/5.

[PapersSummarized] Very Deep Convolutional Networks For Large-Scale Image Recognition (2015)

K. Simonyan et al. — VGG paper showing deeper is better with smaller filters. Rating: 1/5.

[PapersSummarized] ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (2012)

A. Krizhevsky et al. — The paper that lit the deep learning revolution. A must read. Rating: 5/5.

[PapersSummarized] Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition (1989)

Y. LeCun et al. — The first successful large-scale commercial application of backpropagation. Rating: 3/5.

[NotesToSelf] Intuition Behind Why ReLU Works So Well

Breaking down why ReLU is the go-to activation function in neural networks.

[PapersSummarized] Learning Representations by Back-Propagating Errors (1986)

G. Hinton et al. — The seminal paper that laid the foundation for all deep learning. Rating: 2/5.

[PapersSummarized] A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning (2012)

P. Domingos — 12 practical insights every ML practitioner should know.

[PapersApplied] Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases (1993)

R. Agrawal et al. — The Apriori Algorithm for finding item relationships in transaction data.

[PapersApplied] Induction of Decision Trees (1986)

J. R. Quinlan — The precursor to C4.5 and C5 algorithms for creating decision trees.