Spaces
Spaces are my working notes and references, kept and revised over time. Finished essays live on the Blog.
AI Space
- LLM evaluation guide for AI engineers
A parameter-by-parameter checklist for evaluating LLMs in production, from architecture and context to serving, tool use and reliability.
- Stages of AI tuning
The four ways to customize an LLM, from prompt engineering to RAG, fine-tuning and pre-training, and how to choose between them.
- Transformer links
Three interactive resources for seeing inside transformers, from Transformer Explainer and LLM Visualization to Transformer Circuits.
- Understanding attention and transformer architectures
Attention from first principles (Q/K/V, self-attention, multi-head, positional encoding) up to transformer encoders and decoders.
- Research paper picks
Eleven August 2024 arXiv papers on GraphRAG, coding agents, spiking networks, multi-agent RL and new views of attention.
- RAG approach in trading
A reference design for using RAG in trading, from live news and market feeds to generated insights and brokerage order execution.
- RAG intro
What retrieval-augmented generation is, explained through its three basic steps of retrieval, augmentation and generation.
- Graph triples
How subject–predicate–object triples form the building blocks of RDF knowledge graphs, with Turtle examples and SPARQL querying.
Founder Mindset
- Founder resources
Founder blogs, field guides and short videos I keep coming back to.
- Sam Altman's talk for founders: it's all about grit
My notes from Sam Altman's talk for founders: grit, focus, self-belief and real relationships.
Mental Models
- Mental models
My own mental models, plus the classic ones I use for everyday decisions.
Quotes
- Quotes and phrases
Quotes, phrases and rules for life I have collected over the years.
Apps
- Streamlit apps
Small Streamlit apps I built: an AI answer evaluator and a house-vs-market ROI calculator.
Selected Writing
- Mental model: no free rent in your mind
- Mental model: don't hand over the controls
- When to use machine learning
- Leadership principles I practice
Recent Notes
- LLM evaluation guide for AI engineers
- Stages of AI tuning
- Transformer links
- Understanding attention and transformer architectures