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Longer-form explanations, and the arguments that do not fit into a tutorial. Every piece states where the technology fits and where it does not.
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    AI

    What a Language Model Is Actually Doing

    The mechanism underneath a language model, what follows from it directly, and where a smaller deterministic system beats it outright.

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    Blockchain

    Where Blockchain Does Not Make Sense

    Five proposals that come up repeatedly, why each one fails on inspection, and what the person asking for it usually actually needs.

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    Blockchain

    Why Blockchain Exists

    Blockchain was not invented to be a database. It was invented to answer one question about digital money that had gone unanswered for twenty years.

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