Python Optimization Techniques
Performance optimization strategies and CPython optimizations
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Explore machine learning concepts related to optimization. Clear explanations and practical insights.
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__slots__ Optimization
Understanding Python's __slots__ for memory optimization and faster attribute access
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Calculus for Machine Learning
Essential calculus concepts for understanding gradients, optimization, and backpropagation
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Thread Safety: Concurrent Programming Fundamentals
Master thread safety concepts through interactive visualizations of race conditions, mutexes, atomic operations, and deadlock scenarios.
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Convolution Operation: The Foundation of CNNs
Master the convolution operation through interactive visualizations of sliding windows, feature detection, and the mathematical mechanics behind convolutional neural networks.
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Cross-Entropy Loss: The Foundation of Classification
Understand cross-entropy loss through interactive visualizations of probability distributions, gradient flow, and its connection to maximum likelihood estimation.
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Dilated Convolutions: Expanding Receptive Fields Efficiently
Master dilated (atrous) convolutions through interactive visualizations of dilation rates, receptive field expansion, gridding artifacts, and applications in segmentation.
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Feature Pyramid Networks: Multi-Scale Feature Fusion
Understand Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) through interactive visualizations of top-down pathways, lateral connections, and multi-scale object detection.
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Receptive Field: Understanding CNN Vision
Explore how receptive fields grow through CNN layers with interactive visualizations of effective vs theoretical fields, architecture comparisons, and pixel contributions.
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Virtual Memory & Paging: Abstracting Physical Memory
Explore virtual memory management through interactive visualizations of page tables, TLB operations, page faults, and memory mapping.
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CPU Pipelines & Branch Prediction: Modern Processor Architecture
Explore CPU pipeline stages, instruction-level parallelism, pipeline hazards, and branch prediction through interactive visualizations.
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Hazard Detection: Pipeline Dependencies and Solutions
Master pipeline hazards through interactive visualizations of data dependencies, control hazards, structural conflicts, and advanced detection mechanisms.
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Memory Access Patterns: Sequential vs Strided
Understand how different memory access patterns impact cache performance, prefetcher efficiency, and overall application speed through interactive visualizations.
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Hierarchical Attention in Vision Transformers
Explore how hierarchical attention enables Vision Transformers (ViT) to process sequential data by encoding relative positions.
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MSE and MAE Loss Functions
Understand Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the fundamental loss functions for regression tasks with different sensitivity to outliers.
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Vector Quantization Techniques
Master vector compression techniques from scalar to product quantization. Learn how to reduce memory usage by 10-100× while preserving search quality.
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Adaptive Tiling: Efficient Visual Token Generation
Understanding adaptive tiling in vision transformers - a technique that dynamically adjusts image partitioning based on complexity to optimize token usage while preserving detail.
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Prompt Engineering: Guiding AI Through Language
Master the art of prompt engineering - from basic composition to advanced techniques like Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thoughts.
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Neural Scaling Laws: The Mathematics of Model Performance
Understanding neural scaling laws - the power law relationships between model size, data, compute, and performance that govern AI capabilities and guide development decisions.
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Visual Complexity Analysis: Smart Image Processing
Understanding how AI models analyze visual complexity to optimize processing - measuring entropy, edge density, saliency, and texture for intelligent resource allocation.
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Quantization Effects Simulator
Explore memory-accuracy trade-offs in embedding quantization from float32 to binary representations.
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Flash Attention: IO-Aware Exact Attention
Interactive visualization of Flash Attention - the breakthrough algorithm that makes attention memory-efficient through tiling, recomputation, and kernel fusion.
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KV Cache: The Secret to Fast LLM Inference
Interactive visualization of key-value caching in LLMs - how caching transformer attention states enables efficient text generation without quadratic recomputation.
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Gradient Descent
Visualize gradient descent optimization - how neural networks learn by following gradients.
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Multimodal Scaling Laws
Understanding how vision-language models scale with data, parameters, and compute following empirical power laws.
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Modern C++ Features (C++11 and Beyond)
Explore modern C++ features including auto, lambdas, ranges, and coroutines. Learn how C++11/14/17/20 transformed the language.
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C++ Compiler Optimization
Discover how compilers optimize your C++ code through various transformation techniques with interactive demos.
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Gradient Flow in Deep Networks
Understanding how gradients propagate through deep neural networks and the vanishing/exploding gradient problems.
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Internal Covariate Shift
Understanding the distribution shift problem in deep neural networks that batch normalization solves.
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CPU Performance & Optimization
Understanding CPU cycles, memory hierarchy, cache optimization, and performance analysis techniques
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