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If you enjoy wine — whether a good Burgundy, a crisp Chablis, or anything in between — you've probably heard the reassuring narrative: moderate drinking, especially red wine, is good for your heart. It's one of those beliefs that has …
Read more →String theory is one of the most ambitious — and most controversial — projects in the history of physics. Its central claim is deceptively simple: the fundamental constituents of nature are not point-like particles but tiny one-dimensional objects called **strings**. …
Read more →Quantum computing exploits two phenomena with no classical analog — **superposition** and **entanglement** — to perform certain calculations exponentially faster than any classical computer. The mathematics requires only linear algebra over the complex numbers, but the physical interpretation is deeply …
Read more →Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is the quantum field theory that describes how light and matter interact. It is the most precisely tested theory in all of science — its predictions match experiment to better than one part in a trillion. Understanding …
Read more →The transformer architecture, introduced in the landmark 2017 paper *Attention Is All You Need*, fundamentally changed how we process sequences. Unlike recurrent networks that process tokens one at a time, transformers process entire sequences in parallel using a mechanism called …
Read more →Good health does not require a complicated protocol. The fundamentals are unglamorous, well-established, and -- this is the tricky part -- actually have to be done consistently. ## Sleep First If you only optimize one thing, make it sleep. The …
Read more →Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Every month brings new capabilities that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago. With that speed comes an urgent question: *how do we make sure these systems are actually good for people?* ## …
Read more →Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude have become household names, but the mechanics behind them remain mysterious to most people. This post gives you an honest, accessible picture of what is actually going on. ## It All Starts …
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