Archives
A chronological view of everything published on KAVRIQ.
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Murali 0.2.0: Mathematical Animations Now Go Vertical
Murali 0.2.0 adds vertical video export, making it easier to create mathematical and AI animations for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and other mobile-first platforms.
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Introducing AI Tadka: When AI 'Improvement' Makes Good Engineering Worse
Updated:Why unnecessary AI additions to clean work create organizational noise, resurrect dead debates, and waste human bandwidth—and why we need to call it AI Tadka.
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Why I Do Not Recommend The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book for Self-Learners
A practical review of The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book from the perspective of a senior engineer rebuilding classical machine learning fundamentals.
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Reality of AI for Software Engineers: A Mid-2026 Check-In
Updated:A software engineer's view of AI in mid-2026: what is real, what is distorted, where the pain is, and what needs to mature next.
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The Hidden Data Problem in Agentic AI Systems
AI systems do not just need data. They create data every time they run, and that changes how we design, debug, evaluate, and improve them.
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Open Weights Is Not the Same as Open Source AI
A practical distinction between open-weight AI models and truly open source AI systems, and why the difference matters when choosing local LLMs.
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What LLMs Do at Inference: A Deep Dive Under the Hood
Updated:A step-by-step, reference-backed explanation of what happens during LLM inference: tokenization, embeddings, prefill & decode phases, KV caching, decoding strategies, bottlenecks and optimizations like quantization, FlashAttention and speculative decoding.
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Understanding Tokenizers in AI — A Deep Dive into ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini
Updated:A complete guide to tokenizers in modern LLMs, covering BPE, WordPiece, SentencePiece, Unigram, and how ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini tokenize text. Includes examples, real-world impact, and why tokenization is the foundation of AI.
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Why Embeddings Matter in AI and Large Language Models
Updated:A deep dive into what embeddings are, why they matter, and how they power modern AI, semantic search, and RAG-based systems.
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KV Cache Explained - A Deep Dive into Transformer Optimization
Updated:A Deep Dive into Transformer Optimization
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Transformers in AI - The Architecture That Revolutionized Machine Learning
Updated:The Architecture That Revolutionized Machine Learning
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Top-k vs. Nucleus Sampling - Decoding the Secrets of AI Text Generation
Updated:Decoding the Secrets of AI Text Generation
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GPU vs TPU - Decoding the Battle of AI Accelerators in 2025
Updated:Decoding the Battle of AI Accelerators in 2025
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Why Does Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Exist?
Updated:In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 or Grok have transformed how we interact with technology.