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Building a Mini-GPT From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real ML Systems Skill

A working engineer’s guide to building a mini-GPT training loop from scratch in PyTorch — featuring AMP, gradient accumulation, cosine warmup, weight tying, and AdamW — designed as a CV-grade portfolio piece.

September 4, 2026 · 15 min · 3092 words · martinuke0
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Probabilities Zero to Hero: From Coin Flips to Bayesian Inference in Production

A practical, systems-oriented walkthrough of probability concepts working engineers actually use, anchored in fraud detection, search ranking, and Bayesian A/B testing pipelines.

September 4, 2026 · 12 min · 2550 words · martinuke0
A autonomous ride-hail vehicle navigating an urban street at dusk, with sensor housings visible on the roof.

How Cybercabs Work: The Engineering Behind Autonomous Ride-Hail

Cybercabs are not magic. They are a tightly integrated stack of perception, prediction, planning, and fleet operations software wrapped around an electric vehicle. This post walks through each layer with the production systems that ship it today.

September 4, 2026 · 11 min · 2178 words · martinuke0
Binary digits flowing into a neural network diagram representing reduced precision inference.

Quantization in Production: Trading Precision for Scale

Quantization is the single highest-leverage optimization for LLM and vision inference at scale. This post covers the math, the formats, the failure modes, and the patterns shipping teams use to roll out quantized models safely.

September 4, 2026 · 12 min · 2415 words · martinuke0
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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): The New AI Engineer at the Frontline

Forward Deployed Engineers embed inside customer teams to turn messy enterprise data into shipped AI systems. Here’s how the role emerged, what FDEs actually do, and why it matters now.

September 2, 2026 · 12 min · 2510 words · martinuke0
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