Technology Landscapes are the illustrations of my vision and understanding of computer engineering and technologies. They give you the big pictures of this field.
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How ChatGPT works – Architecture illustrated
In the post of Google Translate, I explained Natural Language Processing (NLP), encoder-decoder architecture, and Transformer model. In this post, OpenAI’ s Large language models GPT-3, InstructGPT, ChatGPT and GPT-4 are explained. Table of Content GPT-3: Introduce Large Language Model InstructGPT: Reinforcement learning with human ...
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Google neural machine translation – Architecture illustrated
Google Translate is an application to translate one language to another in real-time. The google Translate App can translate from handwriting, voice and camera, and outputs speech and text-over-image. Google translate is using google neural machine translation. This post explains google translate architecture and technologies, ...
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Big O notation cheat sheet – leetcode cheat sheet
Big O notation cheat sheet provides the Big O notations for data structures and algorithm, including arrays, linked list, trees, hash tables, graphs, sorting, search, recursion, DFS and BFS, and memoization, Dynamic programming etc. It also includes leetcode Big O cheat sheet for common interview ...
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How TikTok works – Architecture illustrated
TikTok is a video-sharing app that let users create and share short videos. It impresses users with its personalized recommendations just “for you” precisely. It is highly additive and very popular among young people. Behind it, it is powered by artificial intelligence technologies. Table of ...
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Algorithm types and algorithm examples – illustrated
An algorithm is a set of rules that instruct the computer how to perform a task. This post lists the most used algorithms and their examples, such as Binary search, sorting, Divide and conquer, Two pointers, Greedy, Recursion, Backtracking and Dynamic programming. The algorithms illustrated ...
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Data structures and Java collections
Java collections are Java built-in library provided by JDK. You don't have to implement your own data structures classes and methods. You can directly call the library. Before we list the Java Collections, the original data structures are introduced. There are arrays, linked lists, stacks, ...
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How Zoom works – Architecture illustrated
What is Zoom? Zoom provides video conferencing for collaborations, educations and misc. communications. It integrates with other services such as voice, messaging into one easy-to-use, reliable and high quality platform. What is Zoom architecture? Zoom architecture includes client-side app and server-side infrastructure. Zoom client is ...
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Software Engineering – Fundamental concepts
What subjects are in software engineering study? Math, computer systems, programming, networks, data science, applications, artificial intelligence. Here is an illustrated explanation of Software engineering concepts and terminologies. It helps you to decide which areas you would like to specialize in. Table of Content MathematicsSystemsProgrammingNetworksData ...
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Eclipse settings you must know
Eclipse is one of the most popular IDE for java development. Some of the settings are "hidden" and take time for you to find out. Some problems, such as eclipse remove red mark on project, are annoying. Here I list some eclipse java settings that ...
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