Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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brain8 min readYour Brain on Screens: How Social Media and AI Hijack Attention
How infinite scroll, variable rewards, and AI recommendation engines exploit your dopamine pathways and weaken your prefrontal cortex.
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brain7 min readNeuroplasticity: How Your Brain Rewires Itself
Your brain physically changes shape based on what you do every day. Here is how it works, what helps, and what gets in the way.
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brain6 min readFight or Flight: Your Brain Under Threat
Your brain triggers the same alarm for a bear and for a bad tweet. Here is what happens inside your body, and why it matters more than you think.
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brain7 min readDopamine: The Molecule That Drives Everything
What dopamine actually does in your brain, why it controls motivation more than pleasure, and how your phone is quietly draining it.
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brain7 min readMemory: How We Learn, Store, and Forget
How your brain turns experiences into memories, why you forget most of what you learn within hours, and how constant distraction is making it worse.
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brain7 min readHow We Think: From Sensation to Decision
How your brain turns 11 million bits of sensory input into a decision, and why most of what feels like conscious thought happens after the fact.
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brain5 min readNeurons and Synapses: The Hardware Behind Every Thought
How 86 billion neurons use electrical spikes and chemical messengers to create every thought, and why one brain cell outcomputes a thousand AI nodes.
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ai12 min readWhat Comes Next: The Near Future of Technology
The final article in the From Electricity to AI series: where technology stands today, where it is heading, and what twenty articles taught me about it.
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ai10 min readAI Agents: Software That Acts on Its Own
From chatbots to autonomous software: how AI agents perceive, reason, and act, plus the legal and philosophical questions they force us to answer.
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security8 min readEncryption and Trust: How Privacy Works Online
A clear walkthrough of TLS, public key cryptography, certificate authorities, and the chain of trust that keeps your browser sessions private.
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cybersecurity8 min readHacking: How Cyberattacks Actually Work
The kill chain from first probe to final payload: how attackers move through a system, what tools they use, and why defenders are always fighting uphill.
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ai12 min readThe Frontier Labs: Who Is Building AGI
The companies racing to build artificial general intelligence, their approaches, breakthroughs, and what sets each apart in 2025-2026.
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ai8 min readAI Inference and Scaling: From Training to Serving Billions
How trained AI models serve billions of requests through inference optimization, scaling infrastructure, and cost engineering.
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ai9 min readAI Training: How Models Get Smart
How AI training works, from gradient descent and backpropagation to RLHF, synthetic data, and the emerging possibility of recursive self-improvement.
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ai10 min readLLMs - How ChatGPT Actually Works
How large language models actually work, from tokenization and embeddings to attention mechanisms and next-token prediction.
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neural-networksUpdated: 11 min readNeural Networks: How AI Mimics the Brain
How artificial neurons combine into networks that recognize images, understand language, and generate text. From perceptrons to transformers.
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machine-learning12 min readMachine Learning: How Computers Learn from Data
How computers find patterns without being told the rules. Supervised learning, gradient descent, and why data quality matters more than algorithms.
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databases5 min readDatabases and Data: How Information Is Stored
How databases store, organize, and retrieve data at scale, from SQL tables and B-tree indexes to vector search powering AI.
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algorithms10 min readAlgorithms: How Computers Solve Problems
What an algorithm actually is, why some solutions are fast and others are slow, and how Big-O notation measures the difference.
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software12 min readSoftware Fundamentals: How Code Becomes Action
From binary instructions to operating systems and compilers, how the software layer transforms inert hardware into the machines that run our world.
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internet8 min readHow the Internet Actually Works
A clear, technical explanation of the physical and logical infrastructure that makes the internet possible - from fiber cables to routing protocols.
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energy7 min readPower and the Internet: The Energy Cost of Everything Digital
Data centers now consume 460 TWh annually and could exceed 1,000 TWh by 2026. Explore the energy sources powering the internet and what it means for our planet.
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brain6 min readThe Brain Roadmap: Understanding Your Own Operating System
Why understanding how your brain works is practical self-defense in the age of AI algorithms designed to manipulate your attention.
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data-centers11 min readData Centers: Where the Cloud Lives
What the cloud actually looks like. The physical reality of data centers, from power and cooling to the question of whether we will build them in space.
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processors11 min readProcessors and GPUs: How Chips Think
How transistors become processors. The difference between CPUs and GPUs, and why parallel processing is the reason AI exists.
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semiconductors9 min readSemiconductors: The Material That Changed Everything
How a piece of silicon becomes a computer chip. From doping to transistors to AI processors with 208 billion switches.
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electricity9 min readAttentionElectricity is all you need...A beginner-friendly guide to voltage, current, resistance, and power, and why electricity is now the single biggest constraint on AI growth.
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roadmap4 min readThe Tech Roadmap: From Electricity to AI
A 20-article guide covering the complete path from electricity to artificial intelligence, layer by layer, from hardware to reasoning.
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welcome2 min readWhy This Blog Exists
Notes on AI, cybersecurity, mental health, and staying independent. I write to learn how things work and understand what's coming.