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Do you need an AI agent, or just a workflow?AGENTS

Do you need an AI agent, or just a workflow?

Agents decide their own steps; workflows follow yours. A decision guide for choosing the simplest architecture that solves the problem.

RKRafael KimNov 05 · 6 min
Sparse attention explained: sliding windows, global tokens and block sparsityPAPERS

Sparse attention explained: sliding windows, global tokens and block sparsity

Why full attention gets expensive, and the three main ideas that make long contexts affordable, with the trade-offs each one makes.

SPSana PatelOct 29 · 6 min
Context windows are not memoryMODELS

Context windows are not memory

A bigger window lets a model read more at once. It does not make it remember, prioritise or forget well. How to design for that difference.

MOMira OkaforOct 09 · 6 min
Mixture of experts, without the hypePAPERS

Mixture of experts, without the hype

Many parameters, few used per token. How MoE routing works, what "active parameters" really means, and the trade-offs for anyone running or buying these models.

MOMira OkaforSep 14 · 6 min

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