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work

I.

the AI cheatsheet

live · v1.1 on the app store
iOS app · 228 curated definitions

your secret weapon for AI fluency. 228 plain-language definitions of the terms you actually encounter — from "transformer" to "retrieval-augmented generation" to "temperature." each term comes with a clear explanation, related-term connections, and a quiz mode to test yourself.

built for PMs, marketers, executives, and anyone who works alongside AI without a CS degree. no login required. no subscriptions. just fluency.

download on the app store
vellestrae // the AI cheatsheet
all foundations models people
transformer architecture
the architecture behind every major AI model. reads entire sequences at once using attention.
✦ "every model you've heard of — GPT, Claude, Gemini — runs on transformer architecture."
attention concept
lets the model focus on relevant parts of the input when generating output.
Geoffrey Hinton person
the godfather of deep learning. won the Turing Award. then quit Google to warn us.
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II.

the Muse and the Machine

publishing weekly
newsletter · blog · podcast

essays and conversations about the strange, productive middle ground where human creativity meets machine intelligence. part tech analysis, part cultural observation, part personal reflection.

the aesthetic is Renaissance-meets-digital — because the tension between old craft and new capability isn't new. it's the same tension every generation faces when a powerful tool arrives. we just happen to be living through the most dramatic version of it.

visit themuseandthemachine.ai
III.

more coming

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next builds

more is in the works. new tools, new writing, new experiments arriving through 2026 and beyond. join the newsletter to be first to know.

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the human mind is the original generative engine.

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