A hands on guide on fine-tuning LLMs book review
The book is super easy to follow and fun to read. Especially after reading the previous author's book on Deep learning.
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Snowflake The definitive guide book review
Probably, the least boring book on building your own language model with PyTorch
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Snowflake The definitive guide book review
Is Snowflake becoming a commodity when anyone can start its own version for free?
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Deciphering Data Architectures book review
This book is a perfect guide for building castles in the sky. Most of what you learn from it is that data is hard to deal with and it's better to make fantasies about a perfect ...
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Making Work Visible - Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
Probably, the best book on Kanban for Operations people though you'd have to skip most of it to get any value.
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Automate the boring stuff with Python 2nd edition book review
Needed a book to brush up my Python skills in a quick and possibly fun way
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Hadoop The Definitive guide 4th edition book review
This book didn't age very well, most of the technologies described in the book are obsolete already.
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Designing data-intensive applications 1& partly 2nd edition book review
The author is really obsessed with the "data" part of his book. This is not a book on technical details how the data is stored in various storage engines. Rather a philisophic v...
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Systems performance 2nd edition book review
Possibly, that's the most hardcore technical book I've ever read. In times of abstractions, when all things are distributed and it's almost impossible to find where your app is ...
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Under the black flag book review
As a North Carolina local I can't emphasize more how hyped we're here about the pirate history of our state. Every cove, bay and island that used to be used by the pirates has b...
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Digital Minimalism book review
Very practical book on how to reclaim your life from ever increasing digital distractions so you can enjoy it in your own way rather than what Silicone Valley dictates you.
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Embrace the suck book review
At first sight this book is complimentary to two great books by David Goggins, plus a bunch of lists of steps to follow. David's books bring a much more powerful message, howeve...
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Flash Boys book review
I have mixed feelings towards this book. It's both boring and entertaining. I had to skip some parts of it explaining the technical details of certain stock market operations an...
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Deep Work book review
I don't know how it's possible but I haven't heard about this book before starting to read it and it was a 100% impulsive buy. How blind I was! It turned out to be a lowkey slee...
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Never finished book review
The book is more enjoyable than the first book by David. However, I find its message weaker than the first book.
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