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Why Test Software? TL;DR Summary

27 Apr 2025   Minimum Viable Post to send to your colleague who isn't sure whether tests are really needed.

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Paper Summary: DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

19 Apr 2025   Summary of the 2025 article "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning" by DeepSeek AI.

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Manipulating Datetime Values in Apache Pinot: Reference and Examples

17 Apr 2025   Examples on how to manipulate and format datetime and datetime-like values in Apache Pinot.

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software-architecture

Standardization at Scale is a Superpower

14 Apr 2025   Structuring the codebase such that elements, components, files, etc follow a standard convention is not just an aesthetic taste; it is crucial to enable work and maintenance on large codebases.

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Paper Summary: DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models

06 Apr 2025   Summary of the 2024 article "DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models" by Shao et al.

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Paper Summary: Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

06 Apr 2025   Summary of the 2017 article "Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms" by Schulman et al.

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Experience Means Finding General Guidelines that Mitigate Risk and Increase Efficiency

18 Oct 2024   General organizational guidelines and lessons learned in tech companies.

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Paper Summary: Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study

06 Oct 2024   Summary of the 2024 article "Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study" by Xu et al.

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Paper Summary: The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Texts

28 Jul 2024   Summary of the 2023 article "The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Texts" by Tang et al.

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Paper Summary: Few-shot Fine-Tuning vs In-context Learning: a Fair Comparison and Evaluation

22 Jul 2024   Summary of the 2023 article "Few-shot Fine-Tuning vs In-context Learning: a Fair Comparison and Evaluation" by Mosbach et al.

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