<![CDATA[Stories by Claudia Ng on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@ds-claudia?source=rss-ba2da7b3b9c8------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*5nVa2mtgGHcisrAWvUbq3w.jpeg Stories by Claudia Ng on Medium https://medium.com/@ds-claudia?source=rss-ba2da7b3b9c8------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 18:25:53 GMT <![CDATA[How to Build a Data Science Portfolio in the Age of Vibe-Coding]]>

What makes a portfolio project stand out when AI can write the code for you.

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Honest look at my always-on Hermes on a $0 cloud virtual machine + NVIDIA API free tier

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I wanted to try Hermes without paying for Portal, so I pointed the agent at NVIDIA’s free API tier instead.

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Diagnose knowledge vs behavior failures, then choose prompting, retrieval, or training

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SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, RLHF & GRPO: what each acronym means and how to pick the right fine-tuning method from the labels you already have.

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When LLM fine-tuning beats prompting and RAG and when to skip it

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Sixteen Claude Code slash commands for the model context window, planning, diffs, and spend

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When the agent says it made a fix but your app still breaks: a clear read on Cursor, Claude Code, and what the session is really doing.

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Six techniques matched to six failure modes, including inconsistent output formats, shallow reasoning, instruction drift, and more.

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What works today with Google AI Edge Gallery, what breaks first on real devices, and how to pick a model your phone can actually handle

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