Alex Kim
alex000kim.com
Alex Kim
@alex000kim.com
Dad | ML Engineer | Technical Instructor | Consultant | Community Builder

https://alex000kim.com/about/

Montreal, 🇨🇦
The Economist says Gen-Z’s aversion to alcohol caused: falling restaurant profits, lonelier people, low infertility, declines in innovation and productivity, etc.
Is this satire and I just didn’t get it?

economist.com/finance-and-...
Why economists should like booze
A martini doesn’t just steady the nerves after a rollercoaster week
economist.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
How would you comment on parts of technical writing that is clearly written by an LLM (e.g. it "delves", "embraces" and "revolutionizes")?

"too LLM-y"?
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you ask the Deepseek chat app to talk about Tiananmen Square, it'll refuse immediately.
If you trick it, it'll provide a complete response only to remove it completely when the generation is complete (see the very end of the video).

#deepseek #llm
January 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I wrote a blog post on how to integrate two open-source projects SkyPilot and MLflow for LLM fine-tuning orchestration on Kubernetes

alex000kim.com/tech/2025-01...
Orchestrating LLM Fine-tuning on Kubernetes with SkyPilot and MLflow: A Complete Guide
Orchestrating LLM Fine-tuning on Kubernetes with SkyPilot and MLflow: A Complete Guide
alex000kim.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Engineers: reply in Slack threads
Everyone else: chaos directly in the channel
December 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
My best decisions of 2024:
- finally went through with a tonsillectomy
- bought an ebike
- joined a brazilian jiu-jitsu gym
- read a few books on parenting and negotiations (surprisingly, a lot of overlap between the two genres 😀 )
November 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Bsky vs that other platform
November 28, 2024 at 1:01 PM
I noticed that SLURM is a common choice for workload management for LLM training, so I wrote a blog post on how to get started with it:
alex000kim.com/tech/2024-11...
Intro to SLURM for ML Practitioners
SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open-source workload manager designed to schedule and manage jobs on large clusters. In the world of LLMs, SLURM has seen a resurgence in pop...
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November 24, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Among my friends only people without an intense workout habit have experienced work-related burnouts.
A disproportionate number of sucessful CS academics have some intense cardio hobby. Took me some years to understand.
Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
November 21, 2024 at 4:08 AM
What would you try with 8xH200 Nvidia GPUs?
#databs #machinelearning
November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Shoutout to the ones who say "I'll take care of it" when a messy problem is up for grabs and everyone else is dodging ownership. 🙌👏
November 20, 2024 at 3:42 PM