Philologist

A knowledge graph is the smallest unit of information that LLMs use that makes sense for both humans and bots. Like a sentence in natural language, it arranges data in a meaningful way, showing how data bits like words are related to each other. Some blockchain protocols now use knowledge graphs to organize facts and put them on-chain. By connecting these graphs, they create a web of context that makes it simple to find accurate information about anything recorded there.

If a book, article, or social media post is modeled on countless others, following a strict formula because that’s what the market wants, does it really matter whether a human typed it or AI generated it?

An average reader reads for an experience. It’s all about identifying with the characters, enjoying the plot’s twists and turns, making moral judgments, and emotionally investing in the text. That’s a passive, unconscious process, guided by the author’s intentions and your natural impulses. Expert reading is different. As a competent reader, you know what you’re doing while reading. You need to deconstruct and demystify the content, identify literary devices and techniques, and expose the inten

Six months ago, one of my favorite web2 SEO content writing clients, LiveXP, closed its operations, and my lovely content manager was laid off. The 72 articles I wrote for them in the course of three and a half years are now gone. I shared language learning tips, made grammar rules accessible, wrote about the impact of language learning on the brain, and encouraged their readership to learn and grow (and to use the services of their language learning tutors, which was the point at the time). ...

I used to think Nietzsche suffered from syphilis, which he got from a prostitute. The parasites slowly progressed to his brain and led to a dramatic decline, madness, and death. I heard this from a university professor I admired. He mentioned it while making an introduction to The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, which was our topic in a series of lectures. I read Nietzsche’s books in awe and felt something was not right. I couldn’t fathom why such a person would reach out to a pr...

I just realized that I don’t want to write SEO content for traditional SaaS ever again.

It is possible to gain and preserve inner peace regardless of the circumstances. But meditation is not the way. I have never meditated in my life. But as a freelance writer, I have been hired to write meditation scripts more than once. I was an atheist at the time, and I was curious.

Paragraph reminds me of the early 2000s blogs. There’s not much noise over here. People write their posts themselves, on the topics they care about. That’s at least my impression so far.

You are a creative one, a designer, writer, musician, whatever. You don’t have to know the minutiae of how blockchain works. You need a home for your content, one that respects your efforts and protects your creations in a way copyright laws no longer can, by making a lasting copy on a blockchain, so that no one can build upon your work without you profiting from it.