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Visual essays about the clever machinery hiding inside technology, mathematics, and everyday things.

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What actually runs an ML model?

Model files, runtimes, tensor kernels, GPUs, memory bandwidth, quantization, and serving.

AI & hardware

How an LLM produces a sentence

Tokens, attention, transformers, sampling, and the one-token-at-a-time generation loop.

AI & language

How a neural network learns

Weighted sums, activations, loss, backpropagation, gradients, and repeated updates.

AI & learning

How video formats actually work

Frames, chroma, motion prediction, bitrate, codecs, and containers.

Media

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The Epics

Explore characters, families, alliances, and story arcs across the Ramayana and Mahabharata.