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🤭 This week in summary…

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🌟 Latest codes and articles that we were reading…

• Building A Generative AI Platform

• Every company should be owned by its employees

• Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

• How to Create High Quality Synthetic Data for Fine-Tuning LLMs

• Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians

• All-in-one embeddings database

• Advanced Intelligent Data Retrieval

• Computer Vision Course

• From Hustle Culture to Rest Culture

• The gpt-4o mini inflection point

• Using LLMs for Evaluation

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• Feature Engineering A-Z

• How Passwordless Authentication Works

• Open challenges for AI engineering

• Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data

• Will Figma become an awkward middle ground?

• AI is confusing — here’s your cheat sheet

• The LLM Triangle Principles to Architect Reliable AI Apps

• AI predicts droughts a year in advance

• Data/ML Workflow Orchestrator at Netflix

• Querying 1TB on a laptop with Python dataframes

• Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations

• Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet

• 40 Life Lessons I Know at 40

• 18 Ways Businesses are Launching New Products with Speech AI

• How We Built a Lean Feature Store with DBT, Snowflake, and MySQL

• Olive for model compression, optimization, and compilation

• Building nuclear spaceships again

• LLM Agents Demystified

• Baseline Core - Serverless First Framework

• Does Crossplane Replace Terraform?

• An LLM-powered knowledge curation system

• Odin: Uber’s Stateful Platform

• Overcoming the limits of current LLM

• A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 1

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💭 Thought of the week…

Persistence trumps raw intelligence.

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