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Most blogs, tutorials, and videos about machine learning and AI fall into one of two categories: technically impenetrable, or so simplified they’re basically wrong. This site is an attempt at a third option.
It’s for professionals who work alongside machine learning and AI, and want to understand it, then use that understanding to do their jobs more effectively. It’s written by someone with more than 25 years in machine learning and AI, as a consultant, developer, and now product manager at a major tech company.
It’s also for curious people who don’t have time to sort through everything written about machine learning and AI. Once a month, we pick the best articles, podcasts, and videos from sources we trust and send them your way in The ML Advocate Monthly.
And on Fridays, there’s a shorter series called Because It’s Friday that follows curiosity wherever it leads.
Short on time? , the site’s assistant. It answers from every post on the blog.
[Patterns first. Algorithms second.]
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Explainers that make the concepts click. Case studies from sports, science, and business. And on Fridays, the fun stuff: odd stories, famous flops, and the occasional love letter to an algorithm.
Short on time? a question instead.

Language models were around long before ChatGPT. This is how word counting, neural networks, attention, and transformers led to it.
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New ML Advocate posts plus the best machine learning and AI reads, once a month. No hype, no doom.