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The Human Algorithm publishes every Monday: one argument, plain language, real numbers. The Decoder defines one term at a time, on its own page, when you just need the word explained.
This is my study. Come in.
Learn AI in
Learn AI in
plain language. Nothing hidden.
Every idea here comes with a machine you can break. Change the input, watch the output move, and keep the intuition afterwards.
No permission required.
The archive is free forever • no card to read
Who this is for
AI arrived.
AI arrived.
The explanation did not.
Someone who understands what is happening to their work can argue with it. Someone who does not can only wait to be told.
That difference is not about how smart anybody is. It comes down to whether anybody bothered to explain it using words you already have.
So the explaining happens in public and it costs nothing. No account, no card, no paywall deciding in advance who is allowed to keep up.
- You will know what the tool is actually doingNot which button to press. What is happening underneath it.
- You will know what it cannot doWhich parts of your work it takes, and which it only pretends to.
- You will be able to ask a better questionThe next time somebody sells you something with AI in the name.
The machines are on this page. Try them.
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A real prompt you can edit. Try help, whoami, or tokens hello world. Nothing here leaves your browser.
How the teaching works
Read it, watch it,
Read it, watch it,
then do it yourself
Watch it
The Practice Room is a short walkthrough where you watch the thing happen on the screen, with nothing edited out. Neural Canvas takes one big idea apart across nine panels.
Do it
The machines on this page run in your browser. Ask Mstimaj answers from everything published here, with citations. The Curriculum puts the whole archive in order, start to finish.
Meet Mstimaj
I explain the systems
I explain the systems
I built myself.
I teach what I built
The systems I explain are the ones behind this site, running while you read.
Nobody gets talked down to
The jargon gets removed. The truth does not.
Shows the breakage
When something fails here, the failure becomes the lesson.
Plain words, real numbers
The arithmetic is worked in public.
From the Neural Canvas • free
Every canvasWhat is RAG?
What is RAG?
Nine panels, free, no account. One idea taken apart until it stays taken apart.
Published this week
Every lessonWhat went up
Everything published here is free, with no account and no card. Every article, every canvas, every lesson, the newsletter and its back issues. Nothing already published will ever move behind a wall. An account only unlocks the downloadable files, and that is the only thing it will ever do.
What an account costs
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The lessons here are free and they always will be. If you would rather have it set up with you, on your own computer, with your own files, that is an hour you can book.