#explainer
7 articles tagged explainer. Past halfway to the twelve-article threshold.
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What AI alignment is — when what you asked for is not what you wanted
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What OT security is — hackers changed pump cycles at Colorado water utilities
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What model distillation is — how big AI models teach small ones to cut costs
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US CPI explained — why one monthly number moves rates everywhere
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Tech · 3 min readWhat AI alignment is — when what you asked for is not what you wanted
Definition — making AI follow the designer's intent, not just the literal objective; failures show up as shortcuts, not malice
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Tech · 2 min readWhat OT security is — hackers changed pump cycles at Colorado water utilities
Definition — security for computers that move physical equipment; IT breaches leak data, OT breaches move machinery
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Tech · 3 min readWhat model distillation is — how big AI models teach small ones to cut costs
Definition — a small student model learns to imitate a large teacher, including the teacher's full probability distribution
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Economy · 4 min readUS CPI explained — why one monthly number moves rates everywhere
CPI is published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in headline and core (ex-food-and-energy) forms
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Issues · 3 min readWhat a 'rights member' is — six dues payments buy a vote in Korean politics
Joining a Korean party is easy; voting inside it requires meeting tenure and dues conditions
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Tech · 4 min readZero-day explained — why an unpatched flaw is the most expensive thing in security
The name refers to the days a vendor has had to fix it: zero
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Economy · 5 min readWhy rising bond yields push stocks down — one formula and three exceptions
Equity value is future cash flows discounted to the present, and the discount rate starts from the risk-free government bond yield