Systems Thinking
4 essays tagged “Systems Thinking”.
11 min read
How AI Became Something We Talk To
From early rules and learning machines, through the AI winters, to attention and language models: how a broad research ambition became an interface we can use in our own language.
14 min readWhat Makes an RDU Different from a GPU?
Understanding SambaNova's RDU took me back through FPGAs. Following that connection explains how a model runs on a GPU, what changes when we arrange its computation across the …
6 min readThe Case for Craft
Moving from writing the code to directing the people who write it does not cost you the craft. The craft was never the keyboard. It is the model you reason with, and it only decays …
7 min readKnowability
How systems preserve the connection between the rules they enforce and the outcomes they produce as they change and interact.