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Distilled Engineering

Eight field guides adapted from Distilled: The Engineering of Small, Fast, Cheap AI Models, from transfer signals and synthetic curricula to release pipelines and specialist fleets.

complete8 / 8 episodes•109 min total•advanced
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What You'll Learn

  • ✓Decide whether a distilled student fits the workload and economics
  • ✓Choose transfer signals without hiding access or compatibility limits
  • ✓Build synthetic curricula with provenance, validation, and quarantine
  • ✓Select compression experiments from the binding production resource
  • ✓Turn generation, training, evaluation, and release into a resumable artifact graph
  • ✓Route specialist models with policy, capacity, calibration, and fallback gates

Episodes

Prerequisites

  • •Transformer and supervised fine-tuning fundamentals
  • •Basic model evaluation
  • •Production machine-learning systems

Who This Is For

  • •ml-engineers
  • •ai-engineers
  • •platform-engineers
  • •technical-leaders

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