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dc Deborah Carver from Minneapolis, MN

Deborah Carver is the publisher of The Content Technologist. She is an independent consultant on all things digital publishing, specializing in large content-driven websites.

347 posts by dc Author since 2019
September 11, 2025 by dc

CT No.245: Billy Joel mathletics

Query fan-out is a new term for what's long been a bedrock of keyword-based language processing: the nouns are central to understanding the user's intent.

September 4, 2025 by dc in newsletter

CT No.244: Explicating "attention" in LLMs

The words we publish and hold up for peer review remain the best representation of our brains at work in the digital world. A published paper is the best way to look closely at the foundational assumptions of LLMs. And those begin with pop culture.

How does AI make sense of language?
September 1, 2025 by dc in AI

How does AI make sense of language?

A late 2025 series aiming to break down the technologies that underpin generative AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval. Featuring absolutely no math, minimal technical jargon, and lots of pop culture.