Let's walk through how to build a small-scale version of OpenAI's GPT model in 300 lines of Python, train it for free in 10 minutes on Google Colab, and think about deep neural networks as a leaky abstraction.

LLMs such as GPT-4 and Gemini feel magical, but at their core, these models are token-prediction algorithms. Let's walk through terminology that comes up for LLMs to help demystify and ground their performance.

SudokuAI 1.1 for iPhone and iPad, now with Dark Mode support. I made a quick update to my open-source side project, SudokuAI. Now you can instantly solve any Sudoku puzzle at night. Available on the App Store now.

Connecting ChatGPT to Midjourney to create visual stories from prompts creates an AI-driven creativity pipeline. With prompt engineering, one person can fuse words and art into a story in minutes instead of months.

Delivering a new product requires understanding the needs of customers in addition to the resources of an Engineering team and finding the best intersection between them. SudokuAI was a side project, but even this simple app, implemented by just me, highlighted the tension.

Any Sudoku puzzle can be solved with constraint propagation and search. Let’s walk through how to build an algorithm to solve a puzzle and implement it in Ruby.

Retrospect Engineering adopted a continuous delivery (CD) Jenkins pipeline for automation from codebase to customers, eliminating manual steps and improving the team's efficiency.

Congratulations to the Retrospect Engineering team for shipping Anomaly Detection with Retrospect Backup 18.5, extending our ransomware focus beyond protection with immutable backups to detection.

We migrated from a local macOS development environment to Docker to abstract away library and service management, reducing our dev setup time from multiple hours to five minutes.

Customers need well-written, up-to-date documentation, in the form of user guides and knowledgebase articles in their language, with targeted content accessible as a URL. We built that DocOps/DevOps pipeline.

Let’s say you have a computing environment, and you need to protect its contents over time. You need a backup: a versioned snapshot for point-in-time restores. Let's walk through how Retrospect solves this problem.

Data requests are like ocean waves hitting a service. Ingestion is trivial for small waves, but the larger and more frequent they get, the harder it is to finish ingesting before the next wave. Your service needs to auto-scale.

Retrospect, Inc. incorporated ten years ago today. I’m extremely grateful to be a part of such a fantastic team and to work on a product that has helped so many. Thanks to everyone who is or has been a part of Retrospect!

Building an MVP represents a compromise between Sales, Engineering, and Product Management. Finding a balance between these competing views comes down to a well-defined product roadmap that satisfies all three.

At Retrospect, Inc., we needed to know our current financial position, predict the company's cash flow, and minimize past-due AR. Let's walk through how we did that with a simple spreadsheet.

Retrospect Backup supports ransomware protection using Immutable Backups with Cloud Object Lock–one of the first in the industry. Let’s dive into the technical details of Cloud Object Lock and Immutable Backups.

Retrospect has used Amazon S3 for storing various assets for the last decade. Today, we store tens of terabytes of content on it, and now, Retrospect Backup can seamlessly protect it.

Engineering can enable Sales, Marketing, and Support to deliver deep, scalable interactions with prospective buyers, customers, and partners, tailored to each departments’ needs.

Congratulations to the whole Retrospect team! We launched a massive release this spring with ransomware protection, cloud data protection and deployment, virtual improvements, and now Microsoft Azure integration.

During a colo move, I migrated GitHub Enterprise and Bugzilla to Amazon AWS, available through AWS VPN Client. The entire deployment cost $300 for the two weeks we had it active without a day of downtime for the team.

I used to be Chief Operating Officer at Retrospect, so Sales, Marketing, Support, Operations, and Finance reported to me—around 25 people. Now, I manage the Engineering team, making backup software for businesses.

AI and ML aren't necessary to vastly improve many solutions for customers. The Retrospect Engineering team designed a simple algorithm to optimize backup for a wide variety of data sources.

Order processing is one of those unglamorous corporate tasks that is tedious, repetitive, and absolutely essential.

Retrospect Backup 18 launched last week with ransomware protection. It creates immutable backups by integrating with Object Lock on Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, and MinIO.

I joined Retrospect thirteen years ago today.

During the summer, I organized a low-key internship program for Retrospect Engineering.

I joined Retrospect twelve years ago today.

We're really excited to be part of the StorCentric family, so we can continue improving Retrospect Backup.