TOON, or Token-Oriented Object Notation, is a new format designed to reduce token usage when passing information to large language models (LLMs), thereby reducing cost. Passing data to LLMs is essential to provide the context needed so that it understands what is being asked of it. That data might be a simple chat message, like…
Tag: artificial intelligence
Building a 2nd Brain: Your Personal, AI-Augmented Knowledge Manager
People use their brains differently today than they did 30 years ago. In 1995, we all had to learn and retain knowledge. Referencing books and even using Microsoft Encarta was slow and cumbersome. And then Google arrived. In the early 2000s, we learned fewer things and retained less knowledge, but we started to learn and…
State of the AI Nation 5: Walking the Talk
It’s been a while since I last offered my perspective on the world of AI. A lot has happened so this will be a big one… The key takeaways: Agents The most significant and exciting changes in AI revolve around giving large language models the ability to not only chat back to you but to…
State of the AI Nation 2: Deep Unlearning
There is a storm coming for artificial intelligence relating to the use of copyrighted materials for training. Just because something is “publicly accessible” doesn’t make it OK to use in deep learning model-training and it might be time for some deep-unlearning.
ML Zero to Hero: Part 1 – Hello, World
The first steps are always the hardest, where do you even begin with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)?
This series of blogs will take you from complete novice to ML Guru in almost no time at all. Although you might feel like you’re too late to start, now is actually a great time to begin your ML learning journey.
Why do people only read things that back up their way of thinking?
Remember when the internet was in its infancy? We all had to put up with little 468 x 90 banner ads everywhere you looked – and sometimes we clicked them because we didn’t know better. As time went on we grew smarter, we were able to tell the bad adverts from the good, and the…




