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Pandanus Reach, somewhere in the Territory
I live at the end of the Laterite Highway in a town for which I have adopted the moniker of Pandanus Reach.
The names that appear throughout this site are largely invented, but the experiences associated with them are very real. Pandanus Reach is an actual location with an assumed name; the Laterite Highway is a real road with no particular destination, and all other aspects of the setting reflect just enough distortion of reality to be meaningful.
I teach about artificial intelligence, a task that seems vastly more important and impressive than it actually is.
Previously, I lived in other locations and followed a fairly haphazard career path toward the place where I currently find myself i.e., at the position of the person standing at the front of the room, describing the architecture of a language model for an audience that strongly hoped for a far simpler experience.
In my honest assessment, I am a pseudo-expert in artificial intelligence, and make that claim not in an attitude of false modesty, but with complete accuracy. The field changes with such rapidity that expertise has a half-life of approximately six weeks.
I constructed this site in order to illustrate certain aspects of teaching artificial intelligence in 2026 from a location in which the disparity between educational goals and classroom realities is enormous.
The carnival has grown some doors that lead elsewhere — to other things I've made, in other corners of the internet. You're welcome in all of them.
Elsewhere on the internet
