Daily Dose of Data Science

Daily Dose of Data Science

Finding Every Vulnerability Made Security Harder
+ building an agent engineering team with Grok Bot!
11 hrs ago • Avi Chawla
Grok Bot Masterclass
...covered with a full hands-on video demo.
Nov 4 • Avi Chawla
Agent Framework vs. Agent Harness, clearly explained!
+ a technique for 23x faster attention!
Nov 3 • Avi Chawla
12 Optimizers for Training Neural Networks, clearly explained!
...and what each one costs in GPU memory!
Nov 2 • Avi Chawla

October 2026

Why Other Requests Change Your LLM’s Output
+ an update on Harness Engineering 2.0.
Oct 31 • Avi Chawla
RAG vs. Vectorless RAG, clearly explained!
...explained visually (with tradeoffs in production).
Oct 30 • Avi Chawla
Prefix-Aware LLM Routing, clearly explained
...explained visually (the trick to get the first LLM token 170x sooner).
Oct 29 • Avi Chawla
Why DeepSeek stores its KV cache on disk
DeepSeek's engineering behind 26x faster time to first token.
Oct 28 • Avi Chawla
Which OCR Solution Works Best for Your Documents?
...DeepSeek-OCR vs. PaddleOCR-VL vs. Datalab Surya, tested on the same 150 pages.
Oct 27 • Avi Chawla
Why Temperature 0 Isn't Deterministic in LLM Inference
...explained visually (a popular LLM interview question).
Oct 26 • Avi Chawla
How CUDA Graph Replay Cuts Inference Overhead
...explained visually.
Oct 24 • Avi Chawla
6 KV Cache Quantization Approaches
...explained visually.
Oct 23 • Avi Chawla
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