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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Spark vs Hadoop: What Changed and Why

What changed when Spark overtook Hadoop MapReduce: the three parts of Hadoop, the MapReduce model emulated step by step on three million taxi trips with its intermediate data written to disk, why in-memory processing and DAGs mattered, what Spark still borrows from Hadoop, and what that means today.

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Generative AI
6 May 2026 11 min

Prompt Engineering: Techniques That Actually Improve Output

Most prompt advice is a list of tips. This guide takes one job, pulling three fields out of customer emails, and rewrites the prompt seven times, scoring each version on the same twelve emails. An example and a schema fixed the format; definitions and asking for evidence before the verdict fixed the meaning.

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Career Guidance
6 May 2026 5 min

How to Handle Multiple Job Offers Gracefully

Two offers at once is a good problem, but easy to handle badly: deadline pressure, awkward conversations and the temptation to accept one and keep looking. Using US college-recruiting guidance on offer deadlines and good-faith acceptance, this guide shows how to decide and communicate well.

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Generative AI
6 May 2026 8 min

Tokenization in LLMs: Why It Matters More Than You Think

Models do not read words. They read tokens, and tokens decide what a prompt costs, how much fits in the context window and why a model stumbles on spelling and long numbers. This guide explains subword tokenization and measures it: one sentence is 8 tokens in English and up to 99 in Telugu.

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MLOps
6 May 2026 7 min

Scaling Model Training with Distributed Computing

Distributed training splits the work across machines, but keeping them in step costs time. In real PyTorch data-parallel runs with one, two and four workers, every replica stayed identical, yet small batches trained slower with more workers and only large batches gained, about one and a half times with four.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 8 min

Pandas Interview Questions Every Analyst Should Know

Pandas interview questions are rarely about remembering method names. They check whether you notice what the data and the library do quietly. Eight questions answered on 41,188 real bank marketing calls with pandas 3: disguised missing values, agg vs transform, groupby and NaN, copy-on-write, merges, pivots, bins.

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