How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
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Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit. https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/#hello-nano-banana more ›
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An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT. https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ more ›
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A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/03/03/journalists-you-should-be-looking-for-undocumented-apis-heres-how-to-start more ›
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We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. … https://thenextweb.com/news/the-most-radical-act-in-an-age-of-outrage-is-to-play more ›
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A tree does not exist in order to produce lumber. You can make lumber from it, and good lumber is nothing to sneer at. But if you look at a tree and see only lumber, you have missed what is… more ›
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Kyrgyzstan has become a de facto “crypto corridor” linking sanctioned Russian flows with trade in Central Asia and supply chains from China. https://thediplomat.com/2026/04/welcome-to-cryptostan-kyrgyzstan-and-the-emerging-crypto-corridor/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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With an 800% increase in its balance sheet since 2005, OCP is more than a mining company; it leads Morocco’s industrial and diplomatic push on the continent. https://www.theafricareport.com/409253/the-phosphates-king-how-mostafa-terrab-turned-a-failing-giant-into-a-fertiliser-juggernaut/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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Una apasionante crónica de mayo de 68. Los símbolos de la autoridad son impugnados por millones de huelguistas y estudiantes. William Klein rueda día a día asambleas, debates improvisados, manifestaciones, barricadas, trifulcas de calles, utopía en marcha, esperanzas, dimisiones. Rodado… more ›
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Header image from Dex Horthy on Twitter. Context engineering is building dynamic systems to provide the right information and tools in the right format such that the LLM can plausibly accomplish the task. Most of the time when an agent… more ›
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