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Looking past the demo
Most AI demonstrations are built to impress in three minutes. Here is how I pressure test them for the work that actually matters.
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A deep and analytical view of the AI world.
Contuitus is an old word for the steady, intuitive gaze that takes in the whole of a thing at once. This site applies that gaze to artificial intelligence: looking past the noise to the structure underneath, and writing it down plainly.
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Running capable models on a laptop
A practical setup for local inference, why it matters for sensitive work, and the trade offs you accept when you leave the cloud.
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Writing plainly about hard things
Clear writing is a control. If you cannot explain a system in plain language, you do not yet understand it well enough to trust it.
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