Build a Robot Brain, One Block at a Time
Stack blocks, make them wider, and watch a robot brain grow to millions of parameters in this simple beginner guide.
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how ai works
How a Robot Guesses the Next Word
A friendly, no maths look at how a language model builds sentences by guessing one likely next word at a time, with a tiny game to try.
How Computers Draw a Map of Words
A friendly guide to embeddings, where computers place each word as a point so that words with similar meanings sit close together.
How Some AI Remembers Without Reading Everything Again
A friendly look at how a state space model like Mamba keeps one small memory and updates it as words stream by, trading perfect recall for speed.
How Computers Turn Scores Into Chances
A gentle beginner guide to softmax, the little step that turns a model's raw scores into a pie of chances that adds up to a whole.
How a Computer Figures Out What Words Mean
A gentle, playful look at attention, the simple idea that lets a computer figure out which words in a sentence belong together.