AI & Machine Learning

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Machine Translation's Low-Resource Language Problem

There are roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. Google Translate supports about 130 of them. Most commercial MT systems handle fewer than 30 well. If you...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen9 min read
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State Space Models vs Transformers: A Practical Guide

Transformers won't be the only game in town for much longer. I know that sounds like a bold claim — we've all watched the transformer architecture dominate...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen12 min read
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How AI Tools Are Quietly Changing the Way Developers Think

I noticed it about six months into using Copilot regularly. I was debugging a Python script and reached for the AI assistant before I'd actually read the error...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen9 min read
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LLM Agents Are Just Distributed Systems

The AI community is building multi-agent systems — teams of LLMs that divide work, communicate, and collaborate to solve problems no single model can handle. A...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen8 min read
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Beyond Self-Attention: What Comes After Transformers

The transformer architecture has been running AI for eight years now. Every major language model, most image generation systems, and an increasing number of...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen10 min read
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Running Large Language Models on Your Own Hardware

Last year I spent $4,200 building a local inference rig that could run a 70B parameter model at reasonable speed. A colleague looked at my setup and asked the...

Sarah ChenSarah Chen10 min read