Machine Learning: Index

Index

• Foundations
• Deep Learning
• Large Language Models
• Linguistics and Tokenization
• Search and Retrieval. Ground-up notes on how modern search and retrieval systems work — from what search even is, through lexical retrieval (BM25), dense retrieval (embeddings + ANN), hybrid scoring, reranking, and the data plumbing that holds it together.
• Privacy and ML. Working notes on privacy-preserving machine learning, written from seven months building on-device privacy ML at Firefox and read into the wider field from there.
• Systems and Practice
• Projects