Hassan Ijaz

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  • Harness Engineering IV: Whatever Exists/Building Grit's vision layer: how a harness sees a codebase before the model touches a single line.
  • System Design: A Pound of Flesh/Why every system design reaches for the same six tools, what wall each one answers, and what pound of flesh each one takes on your way through.
  • Harness Engineering III: Seven Ways to Hold a Model/I cloned seven coding agent harnesses, read the source, and verified every claim. Some survived. Some didn't.
  • LLM Internals: The Crozzled Heart/Opening up GPT-2 to find the circuits, attention heads, and neurons that make it think.
  • Harness Engineering II: Making Small Models do Big Things/An adventure with Gemma4 and an ancient gaming laptop.
  • Harness Engineering: A not so technical guide/Harness Engineering for Game of Thrones fans.
  • Probability and Statistics for ML/Interactive guide to probability and statistics concepts essential for machine learning, with 58 hands-on visualizations.
  • Grokking SageMaker Algorithms/A comprehensive guide to understanding and applying SageMaker's built-in ML algorithms.
  • Harnessing SageMaker DeepAR+ for Bitcoin Price Predictions/Use Amazon SageMaker's DeepAR+ algorithm to forecast Bitcoin price movements.
  • Receipt Vision: Build a Receipt Reader using AWS Textract and Comprehend/Extract structured data from receipts using AWS services for OCR and natural language processing.
  • Build a Smart Photo Organizer with AWS Rekognition/Learn how to use AWS Rekognition to organize and categorize your photos automatically.
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