The Computist Journal
Alejandro Piad MorffisEducational articles, essays, and tutorials on Computer Science research, practice, and education.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 195 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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How Large Languages Models Are Really Made
After Joseph Racknitz’s 1789 cutaway engraving of Wolfgang von Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk; generated with Nano Banana 2.
You type a message to an AI assistant and it answers. The answer isn’t looked up. It isn’t scripted. The model generat...
How to write a CLI an agent will actually use
Monday I argued the next move in agent autonomy is the layered stack around the model. This is the technical companion: what the tools inside that stack should look like. Both pieces are part of May’s arc on agent reliability, anchored on...
The Anatomy of a Linguistic AI Agent
After Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” (1632); generated with Nano Banana 2.
You have used a language model in a chat box. You typed a question, you got an answer, you closed the tab. The whole interaction lasted under...
Realtime 3D in Pure Python + Numpy
Just a random, completely unrelated stock photo, because I’m cool now. Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash
Today I want to tell you a different kind of story. It’s not about machine learning, large language models, algorithms, or theory of c...
AI Coding Agents, Deconstructed
I’m telling you, this is the future. AI agents will do aaaallll the work. Photo by Farzad Felfelian on Unsplash
You’ve been using AI coding agents for months. You’ve crafted elaborate system prompts. You’ve added a dozen skills. You’ve lea...
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Democratizing knowledge one post at a time. I talk about Computer Science, AI, Education, Philosophy, you know, mostly harmless stuff. Building a community of tech writers on Substack. And now also venturing into creative writing.
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