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AI & Tools Green probability bars predicting the next word
How an LLM Is Made: Months, Millions, and a Trillion Guesses How a large language model is actually made, learns, and answers in a second. No math. June 2026
Data Engineering A glowing green data grid
The Agent Doesn't Have a SQL Problem Putting an agent on your data is a semantic-layer problem, not a SQL one. June 2026
AI & Tools A glowing network of connected nodes
The Machine That Stopped Waiting From rule engines to ML to agents, and what actually changed under the hood. June 2026
AdTech Green light-streaks racing past a faint 100ms
How Ads Find You in 100 Milliseconds The ad auction that finishes before the page even loads. May 2026
Personal Arriving at SFO in 2018
Two Bags and a Dream Leaving India for the US with two suitcases and no plan B. May 2026