Lessons from LLM conversations
TilBlog
What clicked after the chat ended — short notes, course-shaped tracks, kept for next time.
Index
Latest lessons
One idea each. The question, the click, the rule to keep.
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Problem Solving · 101
A loop beats a flash of brilliance
Speed of feedback matters more than the perfection of the first guess.
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02
Problem Solving · 102
Outsmart them before they break
Structural leverage beats more effort on the wrong constraint.
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03
Problem Solving · 103
Fail into a safe state
Design the fallback before the fire; judge the bet before the outcome.
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04
Problem Solving · 104
Build engines that compound
Design systems that keep solving problems after you walk away.
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05
Signal Processing · 101
Sampling is a deal with time
Aliasing is what happens when your samples lie about the continuous world.
Curriculum without a campus
Tracks
Levels mark depth, not prerequisites. Follow what you’re curious about.
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01
Problem Solving
Framing, decomposition, checking your work — how to ask so the answer lands.
101 · 102 · …
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02
Signal Processing
Filters, transforms, sampling — intuition you can carry into the next derivation.
101 · 202 · …