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Some writing techniques for the butterfly theme in markdown format
AI Agent Engineering Design: A Curated Reading List
A curated collection of essential readings on AI Agent engineering design, covering Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, context management, memory mechanisms, and the OpenClaw architecture. Each article includes key excerpts and core takeaways.
15645 Database systems: Join Algorithms
Notes and summaries for CMU 15-645 Database Systems.
15645 Database systems: Sorting & Aggregation
Notes and summaries for CMU 15-645 Database Systems.
15645 Database systems: Index Concurrency Control
Notes and summaries for CMU 15-645 Database Systems.
11711 Advanced NLP: Evaluation & Experimental Design
Notes on NLP evaluation, benchmarks, and experimental design from CMU 11-711 Advanced NLP, covering loss-based metrics, task metrics, LLM-as-judge, statistical testing, and annotation quality.
11711 Advanced NLP: Multimodal Modeling
Notes on multimodal modeling from CMU 11-711 Advanced NLP, covering ViT, CLIP, LLaVA-style integration, and image generation with VQ-VAE/VQ-GAN.
11711 Advanced NLP: Retrieval and RAG
Notes on retrieval systems, retrievers, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from CMU 11-711 Advanced NLP.
15642 Machine Learning Systems: Distributed Training and Parallelization
Notes and summaries for CMU 15-642 Machine Learning Systems on distributed training techniques including data parallelism, model parallelism, pipeline parallelism, and optimization strategies like ZeRO for training large-scale models.
11868 LLM Sys: Decoding
Notes on decoding strategies for LLM inference from CMU 11-868, covering efficient sampling, beam search algorithms, speculative decoding, and EAGLE.





