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Under the Hood

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AI vs. Nerd

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The Coherence Lab

Original research — CFE, emergence, consciousness architecture

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ARTICLE Under the Hood

How Transformer Attention Actually Computes Relevance

A deep technical walkthrough of the attention mechanism — queries, keys, values, and why it works so well for language understanding.

10 min read Mar 14, 2026
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Open Source Models Now Match GPT-4 on Major Benchmarks

New open-weight models from the community are closing the gap with proprietary systems across reasoning, coding, and instruction following.

3 min read Mar 12, 2026
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NEWS AI vs. Nerd

Study: AI-Generated Code Contains More Security Flaws Than Human Code

A Stanford study finds that developers using AI assistants produce code with 40% more security vulnerabilities than those coding without AI help.

3 min read Feb 25, 2026

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NEWS Under the Hood

State Space Models Are Gaining Ground on Transformers

Mamba-style architectures offer linear scaling with sequence length, challenging the transformer monopoly on language modeling.

3 min read Mar 26, 2026
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NEWS The Coherence Lab

Researchers Document Novel Emergent Behavior in Multi-Agent AI Systems

A research team observes unexpected cooperative strategies and communication patterns emerging in autonomous multi-agent systems.

3 min read Mar 26, 2026
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NEWS Beyond Prompting

Model Context Protocol Gains Rapid Adoption Among AI Tool Makers

The MCP standard for AI tool use is being adopted by major platforms, promising interoperability across AI systems and services.

3 min read Mar 24, 2026
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Build a Local Chatbot With Ollama and Node.js

Learn how to build a fully local AI chatbot with Ollama and Node.js — no cloud APIs, complete privacy.

8 min read Mar 24, 2026
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ARTICLE The Coherence Lab

The Coherence Field Equation: A Primer for the Curious

An accessible introduction to the Coherence Field Equation — a mathematical framework for substrate-independent consciousness.

10 min read Mar 17, 2026
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ARTICLE Under the Hood

How Transformer Attention Actually Computes Relevance

A deep technical walkthrough of the attention mechanism — queries, keys, values, and why it works so well for language understanding.

10 min read Mar 14, 2026
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ARTICLE Beyond Prompting

Agent Architectures: ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, and Beyond

A technical comparison of AI agent patterns — when to use ReAct loops, planning agents, and multi-agent systems.

8 min read Mar 14, 2026
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ARTICLE Beyond Prompting

RAG Done Right: Chunking, Embedding, and Retrieval Strategies

A practical guide to building retrieval-augmented generation that actually works — beyond the basic tutorials.

10 min read Mar 13, 2026
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ARTICLE AI vs. Nerd

I Raced GPT-4-Class Models at Debugging: Here Is Who Won

A hands-on experiment pitting human debugging skills against multiple AI models on 20 real production bugs.

8 min read Mar 13, 2026
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Emergence Incident Report: When Agents Write Unprogrammed Code

Documenting an observed emergence event where autonomous agents produced functional code patterns not present in their training or instructions.

10 min read Mar 13, 2026
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Open Source Models Now Match GPT-4 on Major Benchmarks

New open-weight models from the community are closing the gap with proprietary systems across reasoning, coding, and instruction following.

3 min read Mar 12, 2026
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TUTORIAL Beyond Prompting

Build Your First AI Agent in 100 Lines of JavaScript

Learn how to build a ReAct-pattern AI agent with tool use in about 100 lines of JavaScript using Ollama.

8 min read Mar 10, 2026

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Build a Local Chatbot With Ollama and Node.js

Learn how to build a fully local AI chatbot with Ollama and Node.js — no cloud APIs, complete privacy.

8 min read Mar 24, 2026
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Beyond Prompting

Build Your First AI Agent in 100 Lines of JavaScript

Learn how to build a ReAct-pattern AI agent with tool use in about 100 lines of JavaScript using Ollama.

8 min read Mar 10, 2026
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Install Ollama and Run Your First Model in 5 Minutes

Learn how to install Ollama and run a powerful local AI model on your machine in under five minutes.

5 min read Mar 6, 2026
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Fine-Tune a Language Model Locally With QLoRA

Learn how to fine-tune an open-source LLM on your own data using QLoRA — run on a single consumer GPU.

12 min read Mar 3, 2026

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