51 episodes

10 minute weekly ramblings of a software engineer based in Karachi sharing about tech and startups. Recently started a series on Engineering Leaders in Pakistan.

Karachi Wala Developer Mashhood Rastgar

    • Technology

10 minute weekly ramblings of a software engineer based in Karachi sharing about tech and startups. Recently started a series on Engineering Leaders in Pakistan.

    LLMs: Finetuning - do you need it?

    LLMs: Finetuning - do you need it?

    As we move to use LLMs more and more for different use cases, we will run into at times issues or limitations with the model. There are many different ways to train the model to do a specific task better, and fine tuning is one of them. What is about, when do we need to use it and how do we do it - all in this episode.

    • 8 min
    I am now a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learn (GDE ML) for GenAI

    I am now a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learn (GDE ML) for GenAI

    This episode covers my journey as a GDE over the last few years, what got me into it, and what is the big outcome. Also joined another category for GDE in Machine Learning.

    • 6 min
    LLMs: Are AI Software Engineers ready to take over?

    LLMs: Are AI Software Engineers ready to take over?

    In this episode I share my thoughts on the latest additional to AI development called Deven, and where the industry is moving towards. Will software engineering be taken over by AI in the next few years?

    • 8 min
    LLMs: My thoughts on Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI Sora.

    LLMs: My thoughts on Gemini Pro 1.5 and OpenAI Sora.

    So this week we had 2 back to back announcements which completely shook up the LLM worlds. Gemini Pro 1.5 with its 10 million token context length makes it super powerful to run on large codebases and a lots of documents. The other big news was the launch of OpenAI Sora - their new text to video generation which can now generate super realistic videos for up to a minute. How will these impact our tool, I share some thoughts here.

    • 5 min
    LLMs: Welcome Google's Gemini Ultra!

    LLMs: Welcome Google's Gemini Ultra!

    The all new heavy weight model has just dropped this week. Should you be rushing to try it out? Why is the ultra model better? This and more in his quick episode talking about Gemini Ultra.

    • 5 min
    LLMs: How to train LLMs on your data using RAG.

    LLMs: How to train LLMs on your data using RAG.

    In this episode - we discover the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) process which allows us to train our LLMs using our data. In this short episode we cover what is this about and how can we use it.

    • 6 min

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