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  • Inside the AI Black Box: A Practical Guide to How AI *Really* Works
  • The Core Principle: Next-Token Prediction
  • The Building Blocks: Tokens & Vectors
  • Why "Count the R's in strawberry" is Hard
  • Different Models, Different Tokenizers
  • The Engine: Neural Networks & Attention
  • Scaling Beyond the Quadratic Barrier
  • The Fuel: Context vs. Weights & The Power of RAG
  • The Controls: Prompts & Parameters
  • Understanding AI's Boundaries: What These Systems Cannot Do
  • Conclusion: From Black Box to Toolbox
  • References
  • Foundational Research
  • Educational Deep Dives
  • Technical Implementation
  • Tokenization and Processing
  • Attention Scaling and Optimization
  • Advanced Topics
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