Tolkien And Tokens

Or should I say 51, 144221, 1958, 17951—at least for all the large language models in the room. Wait, what? Let’s back up. Large language models (LLMs) don’t write the way you and I do—thinking of words, writing individual characters, and arranging them into sentences. To see this in real time type “hello world” here….

Henry Royce

In Peterborough, England, among the crowd, a boy could be seen dashing about, selling newspapers and delivering telegrams. So quick was he that you almost missed the fact that he was only nine years old. By the age of 14, his trajectory changed when his aunt paid for him to apprentice with the Great Northern…

Connected

If you walked into work smiling you maybe have contributed to the reason your coworker returned home with a smile. If your friend’s friend is feeling stressed that may impact your mood. Thousands of variables, relationships, all weaving in and out. Does one shrink and try to run from the potential negatives? They’re unavoidable. One…

Charles Rolls

Once upon a time, a family in England had three sons. The youngest was named Charles Stewart Rolls. To give you an idea of the kind of family he came from, when Charles went off to college, he became the first undergraduate to own a motorcar. Yet, this was not just due to his family’s…

Something

Volatile makes you desire numbness. Numbness makes you desire to feel something. To feel, that is something.