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The Network as a Whole

The Network as a Whole

In 1980, a quantum physicist named David Bohm published a book that had absolutely nothing to do with network engineering. Wholeness and the Implicate Order argued that reality isn't a collection of separate parts that happen to interact. It's fundamentally whole and what we perceive as

Attention Really Is All You Need

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Attention Really Is All You Need

In 2017, Google researchers published a foundational paper called "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the transformer architecture that now powers ChatGPT, Claude and basically every AI tool flooding all of your social feeds. It's ironic that the pivotal insight behind the AI revolution is

Lessons from a Network Engineering Journey

Lessons from a Network Engineering Journey

The year 2025 marks my 26th in data networking as a profession and over 30 years since I started experimenting with networks. As I find myself between engagements, I've had time to reflect on where I've been and the road ahead. This pause in the journey