AI Basics

A model does not look anything up and does not decide what is true. It estimates which token comes next. Almost everythi...

Models do not see characters or words. They see tokens — and once you know how text becomes tokens, several odd behaviou...

Turning temperature down does not make a model more accurate. It makes it more repeatable — and confusing the two is how...

An embedding turns text into coordinates, and nearby coordinates mean related meaning. That single idea is what makes se...

Teams reach for fine-tuning when they need context, and for prompting when they need behaviour. Knowing which problem ea...