CT No.236: Hold out your back, time to impress
The Content Technologist gets a brand new dress and (finally!) adds commenting on posts

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.
The Content Technologist gets a brand new dress and (finally!) adds commenting on posts
Links and books and an event
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you'll end up missing everybody.
Before you choose a platform for yourself or your company, think seriously about what how you want to create, manage, distribute, maintain and monetize your content.
How to choose a content business model and platform software
Sometimes, mid-planning, you'll hear something like, "We have to build out an entirely new content campaign that doesn't fit into our existing plan or budget because Wolverine is Canadian and his skeleton is infused with adamantine."
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.
Transformers take static vector embeddings, which assign single values to every token, and expand their context, nearly simultaneously as they process the context of every other word in the sentence. But who cares, let's listen to a pop song!
How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.