Posts

All the articles I've posted.

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  ai

  20 Apr, 2026 · 7 min read

  Tokens and Embeddings: How Raw Text Becomes Numbers the Model Can Use

  Before the transformer can do anything, it must turn your prompt into numbers. Here is exactly how that works, from raw characters to dense vectors.

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  ai

  20 Apr, 2026 · 6 min read

  The Transformer: How Attention Solved the Problem Everything Else Could Not

  In 2017, eight researchers replaced the entire approach to language modeling with a single idea: let every word attend to every other word directly.

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  ai

  19 Apr, 2026 · 7 min read

  Before the Transformer: A Short History of Machines That Read

  Why did the transformer matter so much that we measure AI in 'before' and 'after' it? A short history of every approach that tried and hit a wall first.

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  ai

  18 Apr, 2026 · 9 min read

  Welcome to LLM Concepts: How the Machine Behind Your Chatbot Actually Works

  A 27-article series on how 2026 LLMs actually work, written for curious readers who use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and want to know what is happening inside.

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  ai

  15 Apr, 2026 · 2 min read

  AI Digest W16: The Cyber Model Race Starts for Real

  OpenAI answers Mythos with GPT-5.4-Cyber, DeepMind ships a smarter robotics model, Willison calls the new security era proof-of-work, and OpenAI quietly goes vertical.

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  brain

  13 Apr, 2026 · 7 min read

  Recovery: Nature, Silence, and Taking Your Brain Offline

  Science of brain recovery: the default mode network, how nature resets attention, why silence grows neurons, and what sleep does that nothing else can.

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  ai

  9 Apr, 2026 · 2 min read

  AI Digest W15: Models, Manifestos, and Meta's Big Pivot

  Anthropic's Mythos finds zero-days, Meta goes proprietary with Muse Spark, Google ships Gemma 4, and Microsoft enters the foundation model race.

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  brain

  7 Apr, 2026 · 6 min read

  The Stress Epidemic: Chronic Stress, Burnout, and the Modern Brain

  What chronic stress does to your brain, why burnout is a physical injury not a mood, and how the modern world keeps your alarm system stuck on.

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  brain

  29 Mar, 2026 · 8 min read

  Your 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.