Picasso. Rembrandt. Van Gogh. da Vinci.   Famous artists with distinctive names and incredibly valuable artwork to match. So valuable, in fact, that copies or replicas […]

Lighting the way with prisms.   In the 19th century “prism lights” were used to light underground spaces – under vaulted sidewalks, beneath buildings, storage spaces […]

Precision in abstraction.   Much of the attention in the AI/LLM search space these days (and, perhaps, since they’ve rolled out) is on outputs – what […]

“Diamond.”   In a previous post here I mentioned how SEOs were the attention mechanism before the modern day transformer attention mechanism – guiding and shaping […]

“Shadows in ghosts.”   A few weeks ago here I wrote about how AI/LLM search responses can resemble our traditional search foundations – “Markovian ghosts“, so […]

An archer smoothly picks up his arrow, bow in hand.   He slots the arrow in place and confidently pulls it back into position.   Taking […]

“To aim at.”   If you look at the etymology (word origin) of the word “stochastic” you will find many interpretations and among them you’ll find […]

“Read between the lines.”   “In an ever changing world/landscape.”   “In a nutshell..”   Clichés.   Being exposed to a term or phrase so much […]

Walks.   A starting point, a destination — and a path connecting the two.   Every story has a beginning, middle and end and a walk […]

“Finding a basis”.   “Looking for a basis.”   “What is the basis for this argument?”   “Is this cash basis or accrual?”   “Basis” is […]