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by Oz Akan

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Posts in 2025

  • $Subword Tokenization Algorithms

    Understanding the algorithms behind tokenization in Large Language Models.

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  • $What is LLM Inference?

    Understanding how Large Language Models generate text through the inference process.

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  • $CUDA Programming: An Introduction

    Getting started with CUDA programming: Hello Threads

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  • $A Tale of Software Rot

    A fictional story about systematically eliminating duplication to prevent software rot in a growing engineering organization.

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  • $SOLID Principles with Examples

    It is better with examples.

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  • $OAuth 2.0 Flows, Security and Best Practices

    Comprehensive OAuth 2.0 reference covering authorization flows, PKCE, token security, SPA patterns, and implementation best practices with detailed diagrams.

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  • $Decision Tree: DyanamoDB vs Aurora PostgreSQL

    Which one should you pick

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  • $The Agentic AI Hype

    The Overhyped Buzzword That’s Just AI With To-Do Lists.

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  • $Embedding Selection for RAG Systems

    At the heart of every effective RAG implementation lies a crucial decision: which embedding model to use.

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  • $Diffusion Based Language Models

    Instead of writing sequentially, DLMs start with something like noisy or scrambled text and gradually denoise it over several steps.

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