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ORRERY

IV · Anatomy

Thetransformer,assculpture

Scroll to explode the instrument. Hover a ring to see what a head is watching. Captions stay in type — never in the picture.

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Tokens

Language arrives already broken. A tokenizer is a jeweler’s saw: it cuts “working” from “work” from “ing,” and the model never sees the original stone — only the facets.