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    The Limits of Echoed Intelligence

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    Through my experiments with Humaners, I started to push the limits of LLMs and their ability to complete complex tasks and stay focused on the direction given. I noticed when I was building Small Lanuage Models (SLM), I could get pretty accurate with content analysis, sentiment, and accuracy. But when I…

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    Dear Internet of the Late ’90s and Early 2000s

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    I miss you. You weren’t perfect. You were loud, clunky, and a little too obsessed with under-construction GIFs. But you were alive. Messy, chaotic, and full of raw energy. You weren’t trying to be “seamless” or “user-friendly.” You were digital for the sake of digital. And that made you exciting.…

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    The Bio Challenge

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    Most bios are word salad. You’ve seen them. “Strategic leader.” “Passionate innovator.” “Driving growth through synergy.” None of it means anything. I was reviewing resumes for a social media and paid media management role recently, and by the fifth one, I couldn’t tell if I was reading different people or…

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    The Silent Erosion of Language in the Age of Algorithmic Curators

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    Words are disappearing, and most of us haven’t even noticed. A recent study from technologist Richard Soares found that more than 11,000 common English nouns have dropped in usage by over 80 percent. Not over centuries. Not even over decades. In just the past few years. These aren’t obscure terms…

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