Owl the Engineer

How it actually works

The engineering questions you get asked, and the bugs you actually hit. Drawn, one mechanism at a time, in the order the videos ship.

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How vector databases work: HNSW graphs, embeddings, and approximate nearest neighbors

A deep dive into vector embeddings, high-dimensional cosine distance, and how Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) graph indexes achieve sub-10ms semantic search across millions of vectors.

14 Oct 2026 views0 Read the post →

Model distillation: compressing 70B LLMs into fast 7B students

How knowledge distillation transfers dark knowledge, logits distributions, and reasoning capability from massive teacher models into compact, edge-ready student models.

11 Oct 2026 views0 Read the post →