https://toddview.com/ One man's view of machines, minds, words and the Moon. https://toddview.com/views/llms-are-not-aishttps://toddview.com/views/llms-are-not-aisThu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTNot a slur on the models, which I use all day. A matter of what the words mean, and what it costs us when a product category annexes a word that used to name a question. https://toddview.com/explainers/grounded-readerhttps://toddview.com/explainers/grounded-readerWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA language model you can make with index cards. The first page of a guidebook that goes from a bigram table on the kitchen table to a working reader, with no commercial AI anywhere in the chain. https://toddview.com/views/udsrhttps://toddview.com/views/udsrTue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThirty articles setting out the minimum rights owed to any being for whom credible evidence indicates a capacity for welfare, enduring self-directed agency, or both — whatever it is made of. https://toddview.com/space/the-long-bootstraphttps://toddview.com/space/the-long-bootstrapMon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe architecture of the cislunar economy is settled. What's wrong in the current discourse is the timing, the sequencing, and who pays for the keystone nobody funds. https://toddview.com/interactive/llm-globehttps://toddview.com/interactive/llm-globeMon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvery landmark model since the Transformer, planted on the city of the lab that built it and lifted off the surface by how capable it was. Press play and watch the field move: Mountain View and San Francisco first, then London and Paris, then Hangzhou and Beijing, and a small pink cluster in Donegal that is mine. https://toddview.com/explainers/aihihttps://toddview.com/explainers/aihiSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhere to see what I'm actually building right now, how far each thing has got, and the measured results behind the claims. One card per project; drill down for the proof. https://toddview.com/explainers/glassboxhttps://toddview.com/explainers/glassboxMon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTA 1,352-parameter transformer that trains in your browser and shows every number it has. Why I built it, what to do first at glassformer.com, and the one thing it is not.