<![CDATA[Stories by Amy Ma on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@amyma101?source=rss-d6d8df787b------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*FgNkDca-CITiSmc31etSEg.png Stories by Amy Ma on Medium https://medium.com/@amyma101?source=rss-d6d8df787b------2 Medium Sun, 15 Nov 2026 05:12:42 GMT <![CDATA[Gen AI Myths Busted: A Quick Guide for Engineers]]>

A super simple and quick guide to how generative AI works, the myths around it, and why it won’t replace engineers anytime soon.

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A Book Review (Yes, Really), A Dispatch from 44% In, and Mildly Unwell About It

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Why LLMs struggle with storytelling and how I accidentally found ‘impressions’

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Reverse-prompting as a working human

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One Year Later: What I Learned Still Matters

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And Why That’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me

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After being a TA at OMSCS for nearly four years, this is what I wish every ML learner could hear

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For anyone job hunting, not just tech folks

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A Comprehensive Survey on Activation Functions, Weights Initialization, Batch Normalization, and Their Applications in PyTorch

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And it’s been good.

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