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# [Plain English Glossary: AI Terms for the Rest of Us](https://nightthoughts.me/plain-english-glossary-ai-terms-for-the-rest-of-us?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Plain-English definitions of the AI terms you keep hearing: parameters, tokens, context, quantization, VRAM, MoE, inference and more.

Oct 4 · 4 min read · nightthoughts.me  
Updated 4d ago  
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-   [#machine-learning](https://hashnode.com/tag/machine-learning)
-   [#local-ai](https://hashnode.com/tag/local-ai)
-   [#beginners-guide](https://hashnode.com/tag/beginners-guide)

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Father of two, tech lover. Building systems by day, raising curious minds by night. I write hands-on guides and reproducible experiments on running, fine-tuning and evaluating AI locally on Apple Silicon, on AI agents, and on how AI changes software and finance. The code behind every experiment is on GitHub: github.com/hslimi/night-thoughts

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