Alikwe Ortega

after thousands of years of compounding scientific discovery and technological progress, we have figured out how to melt sand, add some impurities, arrange it with astonishing precision at extraordinarily tiny scale into computer chips, run energy through it, and end up with systems capable of creating increasingly capable artificial intelligence.

In three words: deep learning worked.

In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.

That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data). To a shocking deg... See more

Definitions of business analysis vary. The _____ emphasizes enabling change within a business, while the _____ sees business analysis as a process of supporting projects and project objectives.

Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight.

An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. C... See more

Going from addition/multiplication to the most advanced AI models today without assuming other knowledge or referring to other sources means we cover a LOT of ground. This is NOT a toy LLM explanation — a determined person can theoretically recreate a modern LLM from all the information here. I have cut out every word/line that was unnecessary and ... See more