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color spaces beyond RGB:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-77-image-processing-fundamentals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-77-image-processing-fundamentals</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196387]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[scipio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 07:25:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQonvFkRsaKAi9fqQ1Q2oBjHpzftMFvCLKY1hRGcBjvxo5a9eGD2qsRrpDGgt6B233PexxFn9DqtxZ97EzdJdg1uWi2R3Z9C4fARTZ3ThFjMrwKa75gbjYz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#76) - Mini Project - Your Own AI Assistant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#76) - Mini Project - Your Own AI Assistant What will I learn You will learn how to combine RAG, agents, tools, and a local model into a working AI assistant; building a domain-specific]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-76-mini-project-your-own-ai-assistant</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-76-mini-project-your-own-ai-assistant</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196387]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[scipio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 07:42:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBNvuPpuJoWwmDPPkGx4aaF7Xp3vKdaCmaRrZKHeXNxVfk4kzBS1atTXJd9VAnQvtSycZdf2t3gD1TvkYBBo41dHMTs1BJQ121NXSVoDDZ6UHPLEZ8sqjc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#75) - Multimodal Models - Text Meets Vision]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#75) - Multimodal Models - Text Meets Vision What will I learn You will learn what multimodal means and why combining text and vision unlocks capabilities neither modality achieves alone;]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-75-multimodal-models-text-meets-vision</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-75-multimodal-models-text-meets-vision</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196387]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[scipio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 07:07:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwr5Xg46gnE3BrdGQcYkevrMfGqYdeenMcEwFBcimRWTjpeB8UeYFRijAMJXBbQdTE1ybiA6Wte6ZFjQi1VKLsuxL4pGHhveigRxBsBCi9mPqpSboZUg1zKyg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#74) - The Hugging Face Ecosystem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#74) - The Hugging Face Ecosystem What will I learn You will learn the Transformers library: models, tokenizers, and pipelines for running inference with one line of code; the Model Hub:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-74-the-hugging-face-ecosystem</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-74-the-hugging-face-ecosystem</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196387]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[scipio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 08:59:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rTBenJQonvFkRsaKAi9fqQ1Q2oBjHpzftMGH1mHXnxQT6oGtrTn43oVJGUdWvabnUUoD5rS4uBdU9JoyXEFkgbRXd3nqL99KyUGmUKZaz2GnAGrtBe2NNCiG53xz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#73) - LLM Evaluation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#73) - LLM Evaluation What will I learn You will learn why evaluating language models is fundamentally harder than evaluating traditional ML models; perplexity: what it actually measures,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-73-llm-evaluation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196387/@scipio/learn-ai-series-73-llm-evaluation</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196387]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[scipio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 08:36:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/cyxkEVqiiLy5czPNg6acYev351Du9gQgrBvuGcnN5rNxtNeNucrquRCepM6uRFCed3ZcQ6DLrgacHLCvwbsv4habjGft9oG417gJvLXyC3sccugrakdRHGZBw2To1oNksMG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#72) - Tokenization Deep Dive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#72) - Tokenization Deep Dive What will I learn You will learn why tokenization is one of the most underappreciated decisions in language model design; 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The biggest problem is that if you buy a large amount of any token, selling it later becomes very difficult]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@asgharali/hive-engine-needs-better-liquidity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@asgharali/hive-engine-needs-better-liquidity</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[asgharali]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 05:32:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4C5neeb7bK43aXQHA5UtxkBKhexeYogbGBowRTaozELZ4sTRADfQLTFmx8FMFppq2BNNbgEZajic1hBMTyiXxyAgmBQvQQZa9FixAAVKqhz4p2TuwU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#65) - RAG - Advanced Techniques]]></title><description><![CDATA[Learn AI Series (#65) - RAG - Advanced Techniques What will I learn You will learn hybrid search -- combining dense vector search with sparse keyword matching for better retrieval; 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