Duty Vs Tariff

Tariff is the policy. Duty is what’s paid The speed limit is the policy. Your speeding ticket is what’s paid.

Untangling The Spaghetti

Wading in nuance. Calling out what’s unclear. Finding clarity. Another day eating spaghetti.

Dragon Lady

The first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t an imposing looking aircraft you wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of. Yet, that was the project name for exactly that. Designed and developed by Lockheed Dragon Lady (or U-2) is a reconnaissance aircraft that joins the handful of aircraft types to have served…

Attention Is All You Need

How can we improve the efficiency and accuracy of sequence-based models while overcoming the limitations of recurrence? In English that translates to, how can we make AI more useful? That was the question a team of researchers at Google in 2017 set off to answer. In the status quo LLMs faced a problem. Recurrent Neural…

Rollercoasters Of Mandarin

Mandarin is a tonal language, meaning the tone/pitch/intonation that you use to emphasize a word changes its meaning. You can say “hi” in a really excited or shy way but in English that doesn’t change the meaning of the word. It’s still a greeting. There are four tones used in Mandarin. First tone – Mā…