IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
5 articles
07 Oct 2026 · 8 min read
agentic-ai
A CPU-only chatbot and agent routing demo: trained classifier heads, bilingual tests, measured LXC latency, failure cases and a live homelab deployment.
Read more18 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
agents
On September 18, Tang Jie — Tsinghua professor and Zhipu AI chief scientist — opened a course where students build a tokenizer, Transformer, Triton kernel, and a self-evaluating agent from scratch. I checked the sources and wrote the practical version for anyone without a Tsinghua lab budget.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Morning session covering AI/ML vocabulary — inference, fine-tuning, embeddings, hallucination — with pronunciation guide and exercises.
Read more23 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
ai
Daily English practice for tech professionals. Noon session — AI vocabulary deep dive: RAG, grounding, chunking, reranking, and how to explain these concepts clearly.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
ai
Machine learning, LLMs, embeddings, and RAG — explained without hype. Two tech leads break down what AI actually does, using analogies about libraries, pattern matching, and really smart parrots.
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