<![CDATA[Stories by Nikhil Anand on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@nikhilanandnj?source=rss-a08d6bc7c07------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*WUi3_JE6nFyvnhbWnBxYKg.jpeg Stories by Nikhil Anand on Medium https://medium.com/@nikhilanandnj?source=rss-a08d6bc7c07------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 20:17:26 GMT <![CDATA[I spent months building an AI evaluator. Then I realised I had no idea if it worked.]]>

Who evaluates the evaluator?

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From your dinner plans to billion-parameter AI models

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And no, better prompting won’t fix it.

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What’s actually being computed inside a neural network (step by step)

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]]> https://aiadvances.org/the-most-intuitive-guide-to-backpropagation-youll-ever-read-1b2cc748a4e9?source=rss-a08d6bc7c07------2 https://medium.com/p/1b2cc748a4e9 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:06:59 GMT 2026-03-22T08:10:22.090Z <![CDATA[This one math trick could make LLMs remember 100x more.]]>

I thought I understood LLM memory until I learnt this.

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How a simple math idea uncovers the real truth about AI.

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And what the recent $1T market crash reveals about who’s at risk.

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This clever idea is all it takes to understand modern AI.

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]]> https://aiadvances.org/before-chatgpt-this-simple-machine-changed-everything-b72dff26e65f?source=rss-a08d6bc7c07------2 https://medium.com/p/b72dff26e65f Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:43:44 GMT 2026-01-31T13:56:39.217Z <![CDATA[This is how AI really began (and it’s tragic)]]>

Read this story about the man who created AI before it costs you what it cost him.

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]]> https://aiadvances.org/the-tragic-backstory-behind-ais-real-origin-9d0dd35df1cf?source=rss-a08d6bc7c07------2 https://medium.com/p/9d0dd35df1cf Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:20:45 GMT 2026-01-26T09:09:58.764Z <![CDATA[Stop finetuning. Save thousands of $$ by doing this instead.]]>

I replaced costly finetuning with a one-line model edit… and it actually worked.

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