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Instance Types and Families Explained

How to read and choose VM instance types on AWS, GCP and Azure: families, memory ratios, CPU architectures, burstable credits, local disks and rightsizing.

Nov 1, 2026 · 13 min read

Generative AI

Implementing VAEs: A Step-by-Step Guide

Build a convolutional variational autoencoder in PyTorch: data, encoder, decoder, loss, KL warm-up, evaluation, sampling and checkpoints.

Oct 31, 2026 · 11 min read

AI & ML

Linear Regression: Predicting Outcomes

How linear regression predicts numbers: the model, least squares, gradient descent, scikit-learn code, the assumptions that matter and when to regularize.

Oct 29, 2026 · 12 min read

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