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Educational writing on AI, large language models, RAG and Turkish NLP.

What Are Large Language Models (LLMs) and How Do They Work?
Education

What Are Large Language Models (LLMs) and How Do They Work?

Understanding the technology behind ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude from scratch: from next-token prediction to parameters, from context windows to the difference between training and inference, with no technical background required.

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Tokens, Embeddings and Vectors: How AI Turns Language Into Numbers
Education

Tokens, Embeddings and Vectors: How AI Turns Language Into Numbers

A computer processes numbers, not letters. So how does a word, a sentence, even a meaning turn into a number? From tokenization to embeddings, from vector space to semantic similarity, we explain how AI grasps language with concrete analogies and no math required.

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Prompt Engineering: A Practical Guide to Getting Better Answers from AI
Practical / How-to

Prompt Engineering: A Practical Guide to Getting Better Answers from AI

The same AI model can hand you a forgettable answer from a sloppy prompt and a genuinely useful one from a good prompt. We unpack the few simple but powerful habits behind that gap —clear instructions, context, examples, and step-by-step thinking— with concrete before-and-after comparisons.

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RAG or Fine-Tuning? Which to Use and When
Engineering

RAG or Fine-Tuning? Which to Use and When

There are two distinct ways to give a language model what it needs to know: leave the book open in front of it (RAG) or send it back to school (fine-tuning). Here is what each one really does, where they diverge, and why the best systems often use both.

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AI Hallucination: Why Models Make Things Up and How to Reduce It
Education

AI Hallucination: Why Models Make Things Up and How to Reduce It

Why does a language model state a wrong answer with total confidence, as if it were true? In plain language, we explain what hallucination is, why it springs from the model's very nature, and how engineers rein it in.

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The Transformer Architecture, Explained Simply
Research

The Transformer Architecture, Explained Simply

A single paper published in 2017 changed the course of AI. We walk through why the "Attention Is All You Need" idea matters so much, how words learn to "pay attention" to one another, and why nearly every large language model today rests on this one foundation.

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AI Agents and Tool Use: From Chatbot to AI That Actually Does Things
Engineering

AI Agents and Tool Use: From Chatbot to AI That Actually Does Things

What separates an "agent" from a plain chatbot? We explain the plan-act-observe loop, tool calling, MCP-style tool standards, and where agents shine and where they fall apart, in plain language.

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Vector Databases and Semantic Search: How a Computer Finds "Meaning"
Engineering

Vector Databases and Semantic Search: How a Computer Finds "Meaning"

From keyword search to semantic search: embeddings, ANN indexes like HNSW, what a vector database actually does, and re-ranking — all explained with plain examples, plus how İçtiHub finds case law by meaning rather than by words.

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AI Ethics, Bias, and Safety: A Calm, Practical Guide
Society

AI Ethics, Bias, and Safety: A Calm, Practical Guide

Where does bias come from, what do fairness and transparency really mean, and what do KVKK and the EU AI Act actually ask of us? A concrete walkthrough, without the lecture.

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AI in Law: Opportunities, Risks, and Responsibility
LegalTech

AI in Law: Opportunities, Risks, and Responsibility

AI is collapsing legal research, drafting, and review from hours into minutes. But it also brings real risks: hallucinated citations, confidentiality leaks, and a quiet creep of over-reliance. This piece explains what genuinely works, what is dangerous, and why the final word still belongs to the lawyer.

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AI at Work: A Calm, Practical Productivity Guide
Practical / How-to

AI at Work: A Calm, Practical Productivity Guide

How professionals use AI every day, from writing to research to email to code, how to delegate to it well, and exactly where you should not trust it.

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Multimodal AI: How One Model Understands Text, Images and Sound at Once
Education

Multimodal AI: How One Model Understands Text, Images and Sound at Once

When an AI can look at a photo and read the text inside it, interpret a chart, or listen to a voice and respond, we call it multimodal AI. We unpack the idea beneath this ability, its real-world uses and its limits, with concrete examples and no technical background required.

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How Do We Know an AI Model Is Good? Benchmarks and Evaluation
Engineering

How Do We Know an AI Model Is Good? Benchmarks and Evaluation

What those leaderboard percentages really mean, where benchmarks mislead, and what actually proves a model works in the real world. A plain-language guide.

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Open Source or Closed Model? AI's Big Trade-off, Explained
Engineering

Open Source or Closed Model? AI's Big Trade-off, Explained

An AI model is either something you rent like a cloud service or something you download like a file and run on your own machine. Choosing between the two is a real trade-off among control, privacy, cost, and capability. Here is what each one means, when each makes more sense, and why mature teams usually run both.

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AI and Data Privacy: Where Does Everything You Type Actually Go?
Society

AI and Data Privacy: Where Does Everything You Type Actually Go?

When you type something into an AI tool, where exactly does your data go? The critical difference between training and inference, the cloud–private–on-prem spectrum, the basics of KVKK and GDPR, the real limits of anonymization, and practical tips that actually work for both individuals and companies.

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AI for Businesses: Where to Start Without the Hype
Business

AI for Businesses: Where to Start Without the Hype

A practical roadmap for companies that start with a real problem instead of a slide full of promises — that go small, measure honestly, and know when to walk away.

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The Future of AI and the AGI Debate: Separating Signal from Hype
Research

The Future of AI and the AGI Debate: Separating Signal from Hype

What does "AGI" actually mean, where are we really right now, and what does agentic AI change? We calmly separate the optimistic and cautious views, the genuine near-term impact, and the inflated promises.

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İçtiHub — Rebuilding legal research in Türkiye with AI
Product

İçtiHub — Rebuilding legal research in Türkiye with AI

We turn hours of manual searching through millions of court decisions and thousands of pages of legislation into semantic research that finishes in seconds — built on large language models and RAG over Turkish legal corpora.

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Grounding LLMs in Turkish Legal Data with RAG
Engineering

Grounding LLMs in Turkish Legal Data with RAG

Why a raw language model gets the law wrong, how Retrieval-Augmented Generation fixes it, and how we build the retrieval layer behind İçtiHub.

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AI for Turkish: The Challenges and Opportunities of Turkish NLP
Research

AI for Turkish: The Challenges and Opportunities of Turkish NLP

Why Turkish is hard for language models, how that difficulty shapes LLM behavior, and what it really takes to build Turkish-first AI products.

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