ChatGPT Gave You a Wrong Answer: Four Ways to Fix It
When an AI model confidently provides false information, arguing in the chat interface is a waste of time. Discover the mechanical steps to correct the system and protect your workflow.
You Can Just Ask, But Not About Its Own Confidence
You don’t need to study computer science to work out what these tools can do. You can just ask them. That instinct is right, and it’s how most people who use AI well got started. One popular version of it does not work, though, and it happens to be the version that gets recommended most….
AI Personalization: What Gets Measured, and What You Can Switch Off
Personalization is the part of the internet that adapts to you without announcing it. Two people can open the same app on the same morning and see almost nothing in common. This piece stays on two questions: what is being measured, and what European law obliges the largest platforms to offer people in the EU….
How AI Is Transforming Healthcare: Diagnostics, Personalization, and Ethical Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept – it is already reshaping the very foundations of modern healthcare. Whether it’s identifying tumors in radiology scans or tailoring therapies based on genetic profiles, AI is helping doctors make faster, smarter, and more individualized decisions. And yet, this transformation is just beginning. One of the…
What Is an LLM? The Number Everyone Quotes Is the One You Cannot Check
Most definitions of a large language model open with a parameter count. For the models most people actually use, the vendors do not publish one. The word “large” is doing a lot of work here, and it turns out to cover four separate quantities. Two of them you can look up or count yourself. Two…
How Do Language Models Work? I Built One Small Enough to Watch
The usual one-sentence explanation of a language model is that it predicts the next word. That is correct, and on its own it settles nothing, because it skips the two parts that would tell you how the thing behaves. What does a prediction look like before a word comes out of it? And what does…
Prompt Engineering for Beginners: What the Research Actually Shows
Prompting, in three steps 1Start hereYou are here: What a prompt is, and the mistakes everyone makes first 2The techniquesPatterns that reliably improve the output 3Go deeperChain of thought, few shot, and where prompting stops New to this? Start at step one. It takes four minutes. Most prompting advice arrives as a list of five…
