CT No.89: Would I lie to you?
8.5.21: Build trust with your web content + links.
8.5.21: Build trust with your web content + links.
Self-promotion was never my strength.
6.17.21: What's your ideal search result? And how does your ideal align with Google's?
6.10.21: Summery playlists in lieu of real content
6.3.21: A reconsideration of linking strategies, a new analytics tool, and cave painting epistemology
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.
Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.
July is prime chart-making season. July 2025 is one more chartmaking season that will not be powered by artificial intelligence, and here's why.