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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.
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.
Read More ›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.
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.
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.