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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
A very opinionated short list.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
9
The Missing Introduction to Formal Language Theory
A new series on the foundations of Computer Science and the science behind Compilers
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
15
Building a Perplexity AI clone
Combining RAG with Google Search to build a bot that knows about everything.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
3
You and AI: the social side of artificial intelligence
Why AI-humans relationships are now a crucial topic
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Riccardo Vocca
7
Deciphering Turing: Reflections on a Legacy of Iconoclastic Originality
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Nick Potkalitsky
9
How to Train your Chatbot - The PDF Bot
The second lesson in our journey to master LLMs.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
Let's build our own ChatGPT
Build your own chat with an LLM application in just 56 lines of code and 15 minutes.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
4
But what is Artificial Intelligence anyway?
The no-BS introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence you didn't know you wanted.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
4
The Lurker's Labyrinth
Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Graphs
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
8
Make a Customer Service Bot
Build a simple bot that replies to queries with personalized information from a user profile and general knowledge from a FAQ
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
Chat with your PDF
Build a simple streamlit app using LLMs and vector databases to answer arbitrary questions from a PDF document
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
19
The Hardest Problem
The most important theoretical question in Computer Science asks about the existence of truly hard problems, that can't be solved efficiently regardless…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
26
The Answer to All Questions
How the quest to answer all mathematical questions became the origin story for a new science.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
13
Supervised vs Reinforcement Learning
Some quick notes on when and how to use each of the two main Machine Learning paradigms.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Edem Gold
1
A Universal Language for Reasoning
Leibniz's dream and the search for a universal language of thoughts
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
14
Thinking like a Computer Scientist - Rigor and Formality
Analyzing the role of two key qualities of sound, logical thinking, and how they can help you improve your reasoning and argumentation skills.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Daniel Valdés
8
What is Truth?
Can linguistics, mathematics, and logic tell us anything about it?
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
, 
Andrew Smith
, and 
Daniel Valdés
9
Foundations of ML #2 - Learning Paradigms
A framework to characterize and understand the different flavors of machine learning, from supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement, to the many…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Daniel Valdés
1
Foundations of ML #1 - What is Machine Learning?
The first issue on the Foundations of Machine Learning series, exploring the most basic concepts in the field.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
 and 
Daniel Valdés
8
Can Machines Think?
What Alan Turing's seminal paper Computer Machinery and Intelligence tells us about the nature of thinking.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
25
What is Computer Science
A high-level overview of the whole field with lots of pointers for further reading
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
2
Binary Search
An introduction to the most important problem in Computer Science and one of the most clever algorithms ever devised.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
8
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