[ Ai and llms ] Part 1 of 6 2 min read
Prompting ClaudeI used to write prompts the way I wrote change-window emails to the NOC: in capital letters, with the word CRITICAL in them. Eight prompt habits that helped on 2023-era models and backfire on the current ones, on one chart. Part one of six.
A frontier training run is a networking problem dressed up in a math costume. The industry chose the chickens over the oxen, so how do you get 16,000 of them pulling in the same direction? Part three of six.
[ Ai and llms ] Part 2 of 6 9 min read
How LLMs Actually WorkTraining turns roughly 405 billion random numbers into something useful through one boring move: guess the next token, get graded, nudge every number a hair, and repeat. Part two of six.
[ Ai and llms ] Part 1 of 6 11 min read
How LLMs Actually WorkA large language model is an enormous pile of numbers, and everything it does comes from multiplying other numbers by that pile. Part one of six.
[ Ai and llms ] 6 min read
I asked an AI to tidy up my blog repo and it accidentally organized itself into a nine-member development team. I'm releasing that team, free, on GitHub.
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[ Tech field day ] 1 min read
For those of you who understand what Tech Field Day is, and want to follow this week’s events, feel free to use this calendar to track the events.
[ Networking ] 8 min read
In 1876, an internal memo at Western Union is reported to have read: “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” At the …
[ Tech field day ] [ Infrastructure ] 6 min read
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” ~ Edward Tuft In the ever-so-neatly packaged and marketed buzzword bingo world that we know as “cloud,” there are two generally accepted …
[ Industry events ] 1 min read
I just wanted to drop a quick note here to let everyone know that I plan on blogging a little more frequently this week, as I’ll be in Las Vegas for the annual North American Cisco conference: Cisco Networkers/Live. I …