Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI & Deep Learning
Arshavir Blackwell, PhD\ud83e\udd16, John Holman, Silvia StepitovaI open AI models and make them write in my voice, after 35+ years building them. Experiments on my own hardware, no hype. Subscribe and get Beat Writer’s Block free: a classic author continues your stuck paragraph in their voice.
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Free Tool: Beat Writer’s Block
You know where the piece is going. The next sentence just won’t come.
Beat Writer’s Block is a small tool I built for that moment. Paste the last paragraph you wrote and pick a voice. A model trained on that author’s real work picks up you...
You Don't Need a Battleship
Frontier models such as Claude and ChatGPT are extremely powerful. Smaller models that you run locally are less so, but they have advantages of their own. Sometimes, if you want to cross a lake, you don't need a battleship; a motorboat will...
Marcus Aurelius Wrote a Book 13. It's About AI Writing.
Meditations has twelve books. This is the thirteenth.
This morning a machine proposed to draft my thoughts. Before the dregs settled in my cup, it yielded three pages—smooth, agreeable, and entirely void of anything I would have claimed...
Whose Instruction Wins
As a kid, not surprisingly, I was a huge Star Trek fan, and one of my favorite episodes was the one where the Enterprise’s crew is kidnapped by androids and risks being forced to live out the rest of their lives in enslaved luxury (it’s com...
Three Ways to Be Wrong About the Past Tense
Across four posts I argued that language models don’t learn the past tense the way children do — that they slap -ed on everything first and memorize exceptions like went afterwards, the reverse of a child’s order, and that a child-like U-sh...
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