app.init — the AI cheatsheet 
a vellestrae tool // coming soon

the AI cheatsheet

know the room.

a pocket reference for the AI-curious. 100 curated definitions — terms, concepts, the people reshaping the world — written for sharp minds who aren't (yet) technical.

status        → building in progress
platform      → iOS (iPhone)
launch        → 2026 // tbc
early access   → via substack
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vellestrae // the AI cheatsheet
>_ transformer...
all concepts people arch.
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.
search
browse
saved
recent
what it does

your secret weapon
for AI fluency

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instant lookup

search 100+ AI and computer science terms in under a second. fuzzy matching handles typos. works fully offline — no signal needed in the room.

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human-scale definitions

every term explained three ways: a one-liner, a plain-english paragraph, and an analogy that actually lands. written for curious minds, not engineers.

✦
the cocktail party line

every entry includes a quotable, conversation-ready insight — the thing you can actually say at dinner. sound fluent without sounding like a textbook.

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the thinkers

not just jargon — profiles of the people reshaping the world. Hinton, Karpathy, Huang, Altman. know who they are and why they matter.

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browse by category

filter by machine learning, generative AI, infrastructure, ethics, NLP, and more. or browse alphabetically when you're exploring.

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save & revisit

bookmark terms to a personal collection. recently viewed terms stay surfaced. build your fluency at your own pace, on your own terms.

content preview

100 terms at launch.
the ones that actually come up.

machine learning & AI
neural network beginner
training beginner
large language model beginner
transformer inter.
attention mechanism inter.
fine-tuning inter.
embeddings inter.
backpropagation advanced
diffusion model inter.
reinforcement learning inter.
people & companies
Geoffrey Hinton beginner
Jensen Huang beginner
Andrej Karpathy beginner
Sam Altman beginner
Yann LeCun beginner
Demis Hassabis beginner
OpenAI beginner
Anthropic beginner
Nvidia beginner
Google DeepMind beginner
concepts to know
hallucination beginner
context window beginner
prompt engineering beginner
AGI beginner
tokens beginner
RAG inter.
inference inter.
alignment inter.
multimodal inter.
AI agents inter.
+ 70 more at launch — updated regularly via the app
who it's for

the curious ones
in every room.

the executive

in the room where AI strategy gets decided, but didn't come up through engineering. needs fluency, fast.

the creative

using AI tools daily but wants to understand the mechanics — not just the magic. the poet who wants to know how the typewriter works.

the consultant

advising clients on AI transformation. can't afford to look uninformed when a CTO drops a term they've never heard.

the curious

just deeply interested in where the world is going. reads everything, wants to understand everything. this is for you.

app.status — build log
$app.init — the AI cheatsheet
→ loading content database...
→ terms compiled: 20 / 100
→ status: building in progress
$query platform
→ iOS (iPhone) // native app
→ android: v2 roadmap
$query launch_date
→ 2026 — exact date tbc
$early_access.register --notify
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