The personal website of Aaron J Epelhttps://www.ajepel.com/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/counting_chickens/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/counting_chickens/I took much longer than I expected to post part 3 of my MLflow series. Why?Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/how_big_things_get_done/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/how_big_things_get_done/My reaction to Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's account of what influences the outcome of all sorts of projects, and what lessons I took away from it.Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/new_site/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/new_site/My first post here - why I'm finally setting up a personal website.Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_1/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_1/Tackling Sebastian Raschka's hands-on guide to how GPT-like large language models actually work.Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_2/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_2/Diving deeper into Sebastian Rauschka's unpacking of the self-attention mechanism, step by step.Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_4/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_4/Let's actually train the foundational GPT model from Rauschka's how-to guide.Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_3/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_3/Putting the GPT architecture together in a continued walkthrough of Rauschka's how-to book.Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_5/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/llm_from_scratch_part_5/Fine-tuning the LLM for specific tasks, in a final look at Rauschka's guide to the inner workings of a GPT.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/habeas/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/habeas/Building a prototype service for secret court order accountability, partly as a refresher on Flask.Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/new_site_retro/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/new_site_retro/How did it go? Pretty smoothly - and I learned a lot, especially from where I encountered friction!Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_2/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_2/How easy is it to get started with MLflow locally? In the second part in a series, I define the demo project for testing.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_1/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_1/How easy is it to get started with MLflow locally? The first part in a series where I walk through the docs and use it for a demo project.Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/self_hosting_matrix/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/self_hosting_matrix/I wanted to set up a small social media service for friends and family. How hard could it be?Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_3/https://www.ajepel.com/blog/mlflow_part_3/The full, end-to-end demo of a forecasting experimental workflow using MLFlow.Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT