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Attention Mechanism Interview Questions: What Interviewers Actually Probe
A senior researcher's guide to attention mechanism interview questions: the escalation from self-attention to MLA, what each rung tests, and the traps that expose memorizers.
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Your Skill Scanner Reads the File, Not the Execution
An agent skill scanner is an eval, and its leaderboard score is pass@1 against an adversary who rewrites the input. Why the eight-scanner bypass was inevitable.
Ten Proofs, Zero Sorries: What an AI Proof Certificate Actually Settles
An AI proof certificate asks you to trust nothing. Using OpenAI's Astra Lean 4 proofs, how a machine-checkable certificate settles the claim and says nothing about the model.
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Post-Training Modern LLMs
Pretraining produces a model that predicts text. Post-training is what turns it into something you can ship. This path walks the levers in the order you would actually reach for them: supervised fine-tuning and adapters, preference optimization without a reward model, the reinforcement-learning map from RLHF to verifiable rewards, RL against a verifier that cannot be talked out of its answer, and finally the inference-time compute that picks up where training leaves off. Every step names the ceiling it runs into.
Evaluating LLMs Honestly
A leaderboard number is a hypothesis, not a result. This path builds the habit of asking what a benchmark measured before quoting what it reported, starting with contamination and judge bias, moving through a case where the advertised figure and the measured one diverge, then to agents where a single passing run tells you almost nothing, and ending where the eval harness itself turns into attack surface.