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How Language Models Work

howlanguagemodelswork.com ↗ · Learning & Exams · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An interactive, browser-based walkthrough of language models, delivered through thirteen short lessons.

Why it surfaced

Nick Dittoe’s explainer replaces the usual AI fog with clickable lessons on tokens, embeddings, attention, hallucinations, prompting, tools, and limits. It runs without an internet connection, requires no maths, and marks five core lessons that can tell the whole story in about fifteen minutes.

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The 240-Material Organ

August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.

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 Sabai Thai: A Thai Course Built Around Your Mistakes sabai-thai.app

A free Thai-learning course with 34 chapters, speech recognition, tone and handwriting drills, offline audio, and practice tools for real-world situations.