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Galileo, Cosimo de' Medici and The 48 Laws of Power, Image generated by AI

Mastering Power Dynamics: The Secret Behind Galileo's Success

Power is a fascinating thing. It's beautiful from far and chaotic from close. The chaos, however, is often not easily noticeable. Why? Well...we are habituated not to notice it. Every decision we make is influenced by one or the other form of power, be it financial power,

Nicollo Machiavelli.

Those who still live - Niccolò Machiavelli

Beyond Habit Stacking: Finding Inner Peace with The Four Agreements

From RNNs to LLMs, a comprehensive overview of how training regimes changed.

From Training Language Models to Training DeepSeek-R1

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I, Me & Myself - How Solo Reading Gave Me 3 Traits

7 Practical PyTorch Tips for Smoother Development and Better Performance

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Why I Read Web Novels and Why You Should Too...

Stories and Books

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I, Me & Myself - How Solo Reading Gave Me 3 Traits

A reflection on how reading alone impacted me. Yesterday I had a chat with my neighbour. He was surprised that I had stayed in the building for over a year. "Why's there no sound or trace that you live here?". I was confused when I heard

an image depicting a person reading web novels. Image generated using Generative AI application, Dall-E.

Why I Read Web Novels and Why You Should Too...

A Personal Note on What’s Important

A Personal Note on What’s Important

The contrast between fantastical narratives and everyday reality in a personal or professional sense. The warrior vs. office

Don’t Blindly Trust What You Learn From Fiction

How Earning Money Changed the Way I Value Things

How Earning Money Changed the Way I Value Things

Books bound by measuring tape.

Should You Pursue Your Ambitious Reading Goals?

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The Journey of Building Wealth — Baby Steps

Data Science and Machine Learning

From RNNs to LLMs, a comprehensive overview of how training regimes changed.

From Training Language Models to Training DeepSeek-R1

Reasoning Models #1 - An overview of training You probably already understand the potential of reasoning models. Playing around with O1 or DeepSeek-R1 shows us these models' enormous promise. As enthusiasts, we are all curious to build something like these models. We all start on this path, too. However,

7 Practical PyTorch Tips for Smoother Development and Better Performance

Aren’t these “new” AI features impractical? — A data scientist’s rant.

Aren’t these “new” AI features impractical? — A data scientist’s rant.

Transformer Architecture. Source: “Attention is all you need.”

Building Blocks of Transformers: Attention

Simplifying Decorators in Python | A step-by-step approach.

Simplifying Decorators in Python | A step-by-step approach.

Making Sense of PyTorch’s to(device) and map_location.

Making Sense of PyTorch’s to(device) and map_location.

Regular Expressions — Searching in the ocean of text. Image generated by the Author using Midjourney.

NLP -01: Demystifying Regular Expressions | RegEx guide for beginners.