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- 01Tokens, tokenization & context cost
- 02Model families & trade-offs
- 03Closed vs open-weight models
- 04Sampling parameters
- 05Streaming vs non-streaming
- 06Structured outputs & JSON mode
- 07Function calling & tool use
- 08Multimodal inputs (vision, audio, PDFs)
- 09Embedding models & reranker models
- 10Reasoning models & extended thinking
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- 01System vs User vs Assistant message design
- 02Few-shot, role prompting & personas
- 03Chain-of-thought, ReAct & reflection patterns
- 04XML / Markdown structuring for reliable parsing
- 05Prompt templating & variable injection
- 06Prompt versioning — prompts as code
- 07Output parsers & graceful failure handling
- 08Prompt injection defense at the prompt layer
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- 01Chunking strategies: fixed, semantic, structural, late chunking
- 02Vector databases: Qdrant, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Chroma, Milvus
- 03Hybrid search (BM25 + vector) & reciprocal rank fusion
- 04Query rewriting, expansion & HyDE
- 05Multi-hop retrieval & agentic retrieval
- 06Reranking: Cohere, BGE, Voyage
- 07Metadata filtering & structured retrieval
- 08GraphRAG & knowledge-graph augmentation
- 09Document parsing pipelines: Unstructured, LlamaParse, Docling
- 10Multimodal RAG: images, tables, charts
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- 01What an agent actually is
- 02The four canonical agent loops
- 03Single-agent vs multi-agent orchestration
- 04State machines and workflow graphs
- 05Agent memory: scratchpad, semantic, procedural
- 06Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
- 07Subagents and delegation patterns
- 08Error recovery, retries, and self-correction
- 09Long-running agents and durable execution
- 10Browser and computer-use agents
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- 01Transformer Explainer: watch a model predict the next token
- 02LLM Visualization: a 3D tour inside a GPT
- 033Blue1Brown: neural networks and transformers, animated
- 04The Illustrated Transformer: Q, K and V, explained with pictures
- 05TensorFlow Playground: train a tiny network and break it
- 06A Visual Guide to Attention Variants: MHA, GQA, MLA, sliding window and more
- 07A Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts: routers, experts and load balancing
- 08LLM Inference Handbook: from prompt to first token and beyond
- 09Neuronpedia: look at what features inside a model mean
- 10Embedding Atlas by Apple: a visual map of your embeddings