If you’ve ever used Excel, you’re already halfway to understanding how language models like GPT or DeepSeek work. These models are like hyper-advanced Excel spreadsheets: they turn words into numbers, spot patterns, and generate human-like text. In this guide, we’ll break it down using simple analogies—no math, no jargon. 1. Tokenization: Breaking Text into RowsContinue reading “Meanings and Vectors: How Language Models Work”
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“In the Beginning was the Code”
In the opening words of the Gospel According to Saint John, it is written: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In our age, the foundational principle of existence might well be restated as: “In the beginning was the Code.” The 21st century has usheredContinue reading ““In the Beginning was the Code””
AI and the Paranoia of Power
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton) Someone once voiced a concern to the renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss about the potential threat of artificial intelligence (AI) to human existence. What if AI becomes so powerful that it enslaves humanity, treatingContinue reading “AI and the Paranoia of Power”