Where RL Fits: Training vs. Inference in the LLM Pipeline

Explains that RL in LLMs is a training/alignment stage, not inference, with pipeline context.

June 24, 2026 · 4 min

Reinforcement Learning (ELI-Teen Explainer)

Teen-friendly explainer of reinforcement learning agents, rewards, exploration, delayed rewards, and applications.

June 23, 2026 · 2 min

Model Type Classification by Modality (Multimodal, Vision, Image Generation)

Classifies multimodal, vision, and image-generation models by their input/output modalities.

June 2, 2026 · 1 min

TurboQuant

Explains TurboQuant, a rotation-based vector quantization method for KV-cache compression and vector search.

June 2, 2026 · 3 min

Anti-Narration in Harness Engineering

Harness pattern that forces verification before accepting fluent AI outputs as correct.

May 25, 2026 · 2 min

Model Drift

Overview of model drift, detection, mitigation, and LLM-specific issues like knowledge staleness and provider drift.

May 21, 2026 · 4 min

Attention in Machine Learning

Explanation of the attention mechanism in ML, covering Query/Key/Value, self-attention, multi-head, causal, cross-attention, and efficiency variants like FlashAttention and GQA.

May 17, 2026 · 3 min

Fine-Tuning Techniques for LLMs

Comprehensive guide to LLM fine-tuning methods including full, parameter-efficient, and preference-based approaches with modern recipes and tools like LoRA and DPO

April 25, 2026 · 4 min

Unsloth Studio — Fine-tuning Dataset Formats

Overview of dataset formats supported by Unsloth Studio for fine-tuning, including JSONL, Alpaca, ShareGPT, ChatML, and Reasoning formats with rules and best practices and dataset size guidelines

April 23, 2026 · 5 min

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

Overview of MoE architecture, routing, key components, variants, and trade-offs in machine learning models

April 23, 2026 · 3 min

Chain of Thought (CoT)

Prompting technique where an AI model is guided — or learns — to reason through a problem step by step before arriving at the final answer, rather than jumping straight to the conclusion.

April 23, 2026 · 2 min

Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Extension of chain-of-thought prompting to multimodal settings where models reason step-by-step over both visual and textual information.

April 22, 2026 · 2 min

Agent Harness Engineering

Overview of agent harness engineering — the scaffolding, infrastructure, and tooling surrounding an AI agent, covering execution environments, tool orchestration, memory management, control flow, tracing, safety, and state persistence

April 17, 2026 · 2 min

Diffusion Models in AI

Overview of diffusion models, how they reverse a gradual noising process to generate data, key variants like DDPM, DDIM, and Latent Diffusion Models, and how text-to-image conditioning works

April 17, 2026 · 2 min