Inference Modes
AI

Inference Modes

Once you've trained or selected a model, you need to actually run it agains...

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Ryan McBride
Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI
AI

Security, Compliance, and Governance for AI

Security isn't a bolt-on — it's woven into every layer of the stack.

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Ryan McBride
AWS Managed AI Services
AI

AWS Managed AI Services

Building blocks: They cover NLP, computer vision, speech, search, recommend...

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Ryan McBride
Amazon Q

Amazon Q

AWS's umbrella brand for generative AI assistants.

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Ryan McBride
Model Evaluation Metrics
AI

Model Evaluation Metrics

Picking the wrong metric is one of the most common mistakes in applied ML

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Ryan McBride
Machine Learning Fundamentals
AI

Machine Learning Fundamentals

Machine learning is just function approximation with extra steps. You feed ...

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Ryan McBride
RAG
AI

RAG

Strip it down and RAG is this: before you call the model, you go fetch some...

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Ryan McBride
Responsible AI
AI

Responsible AI

Complaining "the model did it" is not a defense. You built it.

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Ryan McBride
The Cheapest Lever You'll Ever Pull
AI

The Cheapest Lever You'll Ever Pull

Prompt Engineering & Inference Parameters

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Ryan McBride
Foundation Models & LLMs
cloud engineering

Foundation Models & LLMs

A big neural network someone else trained on a vast slab of the internet, t...

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Ryan McBride
Amazon SageMaker — The Full ML Lifecycle Toolkit
cloud engineering

Amazon SageMaker — The Full ML Lifecycle Toolkit

SageMaker is not one service, it's a constellation of ~15 sub-services, eac...

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Ryan McBride
Amazon Bedrock: What A Software Engineer Actually Needs To Know
cloud engineering

Amazon Bedrock: What A Software Engineer Actually Needs To Know

Parts of Bedrock you'll actually touch as an engineer

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Ryan McBride
Scaling Laws, Sycophancy, and Stargate
AI

Scaling Laws, Sycophancy, and Stargate

A history of Sam Altman and OpenAI

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Ryan McBride
What We Get Wrong About Coding Agents

What We Get Wrong About Coding Agents

Do not outsource the thinking.

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Ryan McBride
The era of writing code by hand is over
AI

The era of writing code by hand is over

We are problem solvers who happened to use code as a tool.

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Ryan McBride
You Need to Become an AI Architect
AI

You Need to Become an AI Architect

The End of "Coding" as We Know It: Why You Need to Become an AI Architect

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Ryan McBride
How to Build an AI Agent
AI

How to Build an AI Agent

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Ryan McBride
Software Development Costs Less than Minimum Wage
AI

Software Development Costs Less than Minimum Wage

Think about that. In many places, that is cheaper than the minimum wage for...

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Ryan McBride
Agents Have Brains, Do Not Break It
AI

Agents Have Brains, Do Not Break It

Every piece of information you give the AI takes up space in the brain.

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Ryan McBride
WTF is a Ralph Loop
AI

WTF is a Ralph Loop

Imagine you have a super-smart intern who can write code 100 times faster t...

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Ryan McBride
Before the AI Freight Train Hits
AI

Before the AI Freight Train Hits

The job market might be changing, but for the people who are willing to pla...

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Ryan McBride
Using Language with AI
AI

Using Language with AI

The art of teaching a math-obsessed computer how to understand the messy, c...

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Ryan McBride
Neural Networks
AI

Neural Networks

Math models inspired by the human brain that let computers learn from patte...

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Ryan McBride
Computers Can Actually Learn
AI

Computers Can Actually Learn

Instead of a human programmer writing every single "if-then" rule, we give ...

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Ryan McBride
Finding the Best Version of Everything
AI

Finding the Best Version of Everything

In the world of Artificial Intelligence, optimization is the art of picking...

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Ryan McBride
AI Guesses the Future
AI

AI Guesses the Future

This is where the "Artificial" part of AI meets the "Intelligence" part: Pr...

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Ryan McBride
How AI Actually "Thinks"
AI

How AI Actually "Thinks"

a huge part of intelligence is about reasoning.

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Ryan McBride
A Deep Dive into AI Search
AI

A Deep Dive into AI Search

At its heart, search is about an agent (the AI) navigating through an envir...

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Ryan McBride
The Creepy Ways the Internet Tracks You (And How to Fight Back)
cybersecurity

The Creepy Ways the Internet Tracks You (And How to Fight Back)

Let’s clear the biggest rumor up right now: Incognito or Private mode does ...

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Ryan McBride
Never Trust User Input
cybersecurity

Never Trust User Input

A breakdown of the most common ways bad guys trick our software, and how th...

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Ryan McBride
Your School Laptop Might Be Snitching
cybersecurity

Your School Laptop Might Be Snitching

Your School Laptop Might Be Snitching

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Ryan McBride
Myth of the "Trash Can"
cybersecurity

Myth of the "Trash Can"

Emptying the "Trash" or "Recycle Bin" on your computer does not delete your...

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Ryan McBride
The Ultimate Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life
cybersecurity

The Ultimate Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life

How to Stop Getting Hacked: The Ultimate Guide to Locking Down Your Digital...

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Ryan McBride
Why AI Confidently Lies to You
AI

Why AI Confidently Lies to You

The truth is a mix of massive data, clever trial-and-error, and a whole lot...

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Ryan McBride
A Crash Course in Data Structures
software engineering

A Crash Course in Data Structures

You can’t have it all. There is always a trade-off between Time (speed) and...

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Ryan McBride
The Keys to the Matrix
software engineering

The Keys to the Matrix

Your computer only understands one thing: numbers.

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Ryan McBride
Sort Stuff (Without Taking Forever)
software engineering

Sort Stuff (Without Taking Forever)

It all comes down to one of the most important concepts in computer science...

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Ryan McBride
How Code Actually Works
software engineering

How Code Actually Works

Memory, Arrays, and... Fake Strings?

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Ryan McBride
Building from Scratch to the CLI
software engineering

Building from Scratch to the CLI

Once you get the hang of it, you essentially have the superpower to tell co...

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Ryan McBride
The Secret Life of Zeros, Ones, and Problem Solving
software engineering

The Secret Life of Zeros, Ones, and Problem Solving

The Matrix is Real: Everything is Just Zeros and Ones

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Ryan McBride
Architecting Resilience and Growth
cloud engineering

Architecting Resilience and Growth

In the cloud, ensuring your applications remain available and performant un...

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Ryan McBride
Decoding EC2
cloud engineering

Decoding EC2

When launching virtual servers on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), under...

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Ryan McBride
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
cloud engineering

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Mastering Access: A Practical Guide to AWS Identity and Access Management (...

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Ryan McBride
What Is Cloud Engineering with AWS?
cloud engineering

What Is Cloud Engineering with AWS?

A global network of over 400 locations in cities and countries around the w...

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Ryan McBride
Welcome to my Website!
new

Welcome to my Website!

This will be my space for creative thoughts & activities.

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Ryan McBride

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