Contrastive Learning
Master contrastive learning for vector embeddings: how InfoNCE loss and self-supervised techniques train models to create high-quality semantic representations.
Clear explanations of core machine learning concepts, from foundational ideas to advanced techniques. Understand attention mechanisms, transformers, skip connections, and more.
Master contrastive learning for vector embeddings: how InfoNCE loss and self-supervised techniques train models to create high-quality semantic representations.
Learn Btrfs with built-in snapshots, RAID, and compression. Explore copy-on-write, subvolumes, and self-healing on Linux.
Understand how modern filesystems use checksums to detect silent data corruption that traditional filesystems miss entirely.
Master Python __slots__ for 40-50% memory reduction and faster attribute access. Learn CPython descriptor protocol, inheritance patterns, and best practices.
Learn cross-lingual embedding alignment techniques like VecMap and MUSE for multilingual vector retrieval and zero-shot language transfer in search systems.
Understanding character devices, major/minor numbers, and the device file hierarchy created by NVIDIA drivers for GPU access in Linux.