Rick McMichael
15 posts
Bringing Multimodal Gemma 4 E2B to the Edge: A Deep Dive into LiteRT-LM and Qualcomm QNN
Running Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile devices used to be a futuristic dream. Today, with Google’s release…
Fine-Tuning Gemma 3 on TPU for Medical Q&A with Keras and JAX
I wanted to build a medical Q&A fine-tuning project that stayed genuinely TPU-native on Kaggle. This project uses…
terraform advanced
1️⃣ *Why Terraform? * Terraform is used to automate cloud infrastructure so humans don’t manually create: VPCs Subnets…
AI in Education: Threat or Learning Tool?
Every few months, a new wave of concern sweeps through schools: students are “cheating” with AI. Detection tools…
How to Become a Project Manager (And Get a Job)
Becoming a project manager is one of the most rewarding and in-demand career paths today. It’s a profession…
How to Choose a Great Tech Hire: Beyond Algorithm Tests and Whiteboard Coding
I’ve seen too many hiring processes that focus on the wrong things. Teams spend hours on algorithm puzzles…
The product management crossroads: Skills to shape your product journey
Explore the many product management career paths—from B2C to B2B, technical to strategic, and leadership to specialist roles—to…
CityX: Generate Customized Unbounded 3D Cities with High-Level Control
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called CityX: Generate Customized Unbounded 3D Cities…
App Modernization: How to Manage Risk and Generate ROI as You Go
You moved a critical application to the cloud, expecting infrastructure and operational expenses to decrease. It didn’t play…