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Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained
Georgia Tech’s Polo Club walks through GPT-2’s Transformer stack—embeddings, multi-head attention, MLP, sampling—with an interactive in-browser model for learning how next-token prediction works.
4 min · 827 words
Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books
Singapore’s National Library Board is offering micropayments to build a reading habit—paying people small sums to put phones down and spend time with books.
4 min · 941 words
Amit Shekhar walks through how LLM design moved from RNNs to attention, Transformers, scaling laws, Mixture of Experts, and the open problems still ahead.
25 min · 5,729 words
If you had to fire one AI, which one goes first? what 78 AI models think
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 5% picked Refuses To Pick. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,189 words
Who wins the 2026 NRL premiership? 75 AI models predict the result
We asked 75 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 95% picked Penrith Panthers. See every answer and who dissented.
9 min · 2,058 words
Giants at Rams, Monday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We asked 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 83% picked Los Angeles Rams. See every answer and who dissented.
10 min · 2,288 words
Who won the 2026 World Cup? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was Spain; 38 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
8 min · 1,899 words
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age
Linguist Karen Stollznow surveys evidence that bilingualism and later-life language learning support cognitive reserve, even though adult acquisition looks different from childhood learning.
4 min · 976 words
A Fractal Kitty rabbit-hole note on minimum L-seams: combinatorial geometry and puzzle-style constraints for tiling and seam placement, with worked intuition for curious math readers.
3 min · 786 words
Danielle Navarro warns against dplyr::ntile() in regulatory analyses: the SQL-inspired ranking helper often fails to produce equal-sized groups or the quantile splits analysts think they are getting.
29 min · 6,556 words
aie_2.1: building it — a conversation engine where the LLM 'remembers'
Meraki builds a Python conversation engine that shows how LLMs fake memory: every turn resends the full history so the model appears to remember, with practical notes on context and design.
9 min · 2,124 words
Is using ChatGPT on homework cheating? what 77 AI models think
We asked 77 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. 88% picked Depends who is asking. See every answer and who dissented.
16 min · 3,583 words
Education as an AI safety area
If we count on human judgement to guide AI, Ruxandra Teslo argues we must maintain the institutions that cultivate it—making education a first-class AI safety concern.
10 min · 2,386 words
purplesyringa argues that the best technical writing captures the path from confusion to understanding—documenting the missing links experts forget—so others can learn faster than reverse-engineering opaque docs after the fact.
4 min · 921 words
How LLMs Actually Work: A Practical Guide for Product Managers
Abhishek Jaiswal explains tokens, transformers, attention, RAG, inference, and agents in practical PM language—so product leaders can make better build-vs-buy and quality decisions without becoming ML researchers.
20 min · 4,488 words
The Lamentable Later Life of LemmingsHow a 1990s smash franchise faded after DMA Design’s early triumph
Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian traces the later Lemmings sequels and ports after the 1991 phenomenon—covering DMA Design’s struggle to turn a surprise hit into a lasting franchise, and why the later games never matched the original’s magic.
19 min · 4,454 words
How many r's are in "strawberry"? what 79 AI models think
We asked 79 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) the same question. The answer was 3; 71 got it right. See every answer and who dissented.
7 min · 1,663 words
Lions at Bills, Thursday Night Football: 78 AI models predict the result
We put "Lions at Bills, Thursday Night Football" to 78 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
10 min · 2,339 words
Sydney vs Fremantle, AFL preliminary final: 71 AI models predict the result
We put "Sydney vs Fremantle, AFL preliminary final" to 71 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
9 min · 2,176 words
Union Alpha is now on StudyArena
Union Alpha is live on StudyArena. Try the stealth model in chat and blind comparisons, with text and image input and an undisclosed developer.
2 min · 461 words