Month: June 2025

If you’re building something worth pitching—something more than a glorified hobby with a login screen—you need to know your numbers. Not “I’ll get back to you” know them. I mean know them like you know your co-founder’s coffee order. I’ve worked inside innovation teams at one of the world’s largest financial institutions. And I’ve watched … Read more

In nearly every industry, there’s one practice that’s so widely accepted that it feels like the default. In SaaS, we can say it’s content marketing. While its prevalence stems from its results, it’s important to know if it’s the right fit for your business without jumping on the train because “everyone else is doing it.” To answer the question … Read more

As cloud-native architectures become the norm, developers are increasingly turning to event-driven design for building scalable and loosely coupled applications. One powerful pattern in this space leverages AWS Lambda in combination with DynamoDB Streams. This setup enables real-time, serverless responses to data changes, without polling or manual infrastructure management. This article explains how to implement an event-driven system … Read more

Dear Readers, Have you ever trained a machine learning model and found yourself wondering why it behaves like a distracted student during a pop quiz? If so, allow me to introduce you to the often-overlooked hero of the machine learning pipeline — Feature Engineering. This week, I’ll dive into what truly goes on in feature … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Model and 3.1 Associative memories 3.2 Transformer blocks 4 A New Energy Function 4.1 The layered structure 5 Cross-Entropy Loss 6 Empirical Results and 6.1 Empirical evaluation of the radius 6.2 Training GPT-2 6.3 Training Vanilla Transformers 7 Conclusion and Acknowledgments Appendix A. Deferred … Read more

“I’m alive.” It seems like a mundane update. But to Mirna El Helbawi, it’s a sign for her to breathe a sigh of relief for a little while. The Egyptian writer has a friend in Gaza whom she follows on Instagram. This friend has been DM’ing her every few hours to tell her he’s OK, … Read more

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Related Work 3 Model and 3.1 Associative memories 3.2 Transformer blocks 4 A New Energy Function 4.1 The layered structure 5 Cross-Entropy Loss 6 Empirical Results and 6.1 Empirical evaluation of the radius 6.2 Training GPT-2 6.3 Training Vanilla Transformers 7 Conclusion and Acknowledgments Appendix A. Deferred … Read more