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Perception, intention, and poetic license: What is the attention mechanism that powers LLMs?

Perception, intention, and poetic license: What is the attention mechanism that powers 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.

A digression on trust: Slop blogs and the accomplished UX strategist who doesn't exist

A digression on trust: Slop blogs and the accomplished UX strategist who doesn't exist

Are attractive websites more likely to trick experienced content strategists?

How SEO ends

How SEO ends

Perpetuated primarily by startups hungry for users and the entrepreneurial agencies and thought leaders who serve them, bad data begets worse expectations. Rapid rocketship visibility graphs imply that business results will follow—almost never the case long-term.

Making impressions a thing of the past: Grounding your content performance data in reality

Making impressions a thing of the past: Grounding your content performance data in reality

Everyone else's numbers are inflated, but your own data is your gold. Learn to trust your owned data and make decisions with verifiable performance metrics.

When it comes to content, is data science actually scientific?

When it comes to content, is data science actually scientific?

Understanding predictive modeling can help you play moneyball temporarily, but it doesn’t scale as anticipated. And the scientific method completely falls apart when applied to the chaos of the internet. Here's why.

Robots.txt vs. AI robots: How to block your web-based IP from crawlers

One sculptural mannequin looks at a laptop while another holds a tablet.

You can never truly own words, but you may have anxiety about feeding your web-based writing to the robots. While no content is entirely immune from plagiarism, options for reducing AI mimicry have their own pros and cons.

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