promax
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As a backend engineer. Please learn: - SOLID design principles - Multithreading - Immutability - Streaming , messaging - Caching - Security - SSL, JWT, OAuth - factory, decorator, singleton, obeservable design patterns - TDD All very important topics .






Inference-scaling lets us trade extra compute for better modeling accuracy. Next to reinforcement learning, it has become one of the most important concepts in today's LLMs, so the book will cover it in two chapters instead of just one. I just finished the first one. It is a 35-page introduction to inference-time scaling through self-consistency sampling. This chapter was a lot of fun to write because it takes the base model on MATH-500 all the way from 15.2% percent to 52.2% accuracy. Seeing that jump without additional training is incredibly satisfying. Submitted the chapter yesterday, and it should appear in the Manning Early Access program in the next few days. (In the meantime the first 176 pages that lead up to this chapter are already available.) The next chapter will focus on self-refinement techniques, where the model improves its own answers through iterative reasoning. Happy reading!


























