The Production Gap
Hamza Farooq, Aishwarya Ashok, Jayita Chatterjee, Ali ShafiqueMy take on the AI world
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 42 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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AI Practitioner with 18+ years of experience in building Large Scale ML Solutions. I also teach about building production grade systems on MAVEN and at UCLA
Building GenAI stuff | Creating thefoundersfoyer.com | Co-Founder, TheProdcast | Dreaming about products, books and oceans
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Expertise in LLMs post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO, GRPO), reasoning, multilinguality, model evaluation, and inference optimization (quantization, distillation, speculative decoding)
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