AI/ML
Linear regression in depth
Connecting Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Linear regression
Hi, I'm Manav Dahra
Backend Engineer & AI Interpretability Enthusiast
Exploring the depths of software engineering and AI safety through mechanistic interpretability. Sharing insights from a decade of building distributed systems and recent deep dives into understanding how AI models really work.
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AI/ML
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
A principled way to come up with loss functions
AI/ML
Intro to Machine learning
The right way to approach ML and why it is important to learn the Math
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AI Interpretability
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PyTorch, transformers, reinforcement learning, and practical applications of machine learning in production.