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CT No. 247: For the rage monkeys and the print nerds

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.

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.

CT No.243: Disambiguation, sliding doors, hallucinations, and madeleines

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!

CT No.242: What's your vector, Victor?

How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.