Deep Thinking on ByF (BaiFan) · Daily Deep Think

About Me

blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan)) — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0800

Technology and business in the AI age, taken apart on the timescale of geology.

What I Write
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This blog focuses on rigorous deep thinking and software engineering, rejecting buzzword inflation and surface-level summaries:

1. AI Fundamentals & System Implementation
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Complete Guide to RAG Systems: Building a production-grade local Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with LangChain, Ollama, and pgvector.
Glossary of 270+ AI Terms: Systematic taxonomy spanning tokens, embeddings, Transformers, and prompt engineering.
GPU Accelerated Training & CUDA: Memory allocation patterns, hardware accelerators, and parallel training topologies.

2. AI Agent Architecture & Source Dives
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Claude Code Source Dive: The Think-Act-Observe Loop: Deconstructing industrial Agent design — how a single closed loop powers complex tool use and reflection.
Agent Memory Architectures: Workspace context persistence, session compaction, and progressive disclosure protocols.
Multi-Agent Engineering: Dynamic intervention, runtime boundaries, and agentic orchestration.

3. Current Affairs & Global Economics
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The Economist Readings: Structural analysis of geopolitics, semiconductor sovereignty, and macro trends.
Twilight of the County Town: Micro-level investigation of industrial relocation, real estate, and social shifts.

4. Engineering Practice
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Tmux Practical Guide: The essential command set for persistent terminal multiplexing and splits.
Distributed Heartbeat Systems: Failure detection, leases, and partition tolerance.

About ByF
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ByF and BaiFan (白帆) are two spellings of the same name. Backend & AI systems engineer, author of the byf terminal AI coding agent and the dev-skills engineering skill set. The canonical home of this digital identity is baifan.site; technical writing lives at blog.baifan.site.