Michael Bastos

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My blog features thoughts on coding, politics and family.

Differences between a Career and a Calling

In the vast expanse of today’s workforce, there’s an intriguing dichotom...

Embracing Creativity over Technical Skills with LLM

In the inexorable advance of Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT-4, whi...

Speed Is the Only Competitive Advantage

In the high-stakes realm of software development, speed reigns supreme. ...

The Early Stages of Grief for Programmers

I’ve been a programmer since my highschool years back in the 90’s, the f...

Navigating the Latest NLP Tools of 2023

In the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP), there are a few tools...

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)

BERT is a language model that has taken the field of natural language pr...

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