socratic noteshttps://socraticagent.dev/Recent content on socratic notesHugoenTue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Tokenization: The First Decision That Shapes Everything Your LLM Doeshttps://socraticagent.dev/blog/tokenization-first-principles/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://socraticagent.dev/blog/tokenization-first-principles/How tokenization works from first principles — from byte pair encoding to why your choice of model quietly decides who pays more and who gets worse resultsThe Wall Has Circuitry Inside It: Descriptors in Pythonhttps://socraticagent.dev/blog/python-access-control/Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://socraticagent.dev/blog/python-access-control/how access control is implemented in python through descriptorWhy Your B-tree Index Is Useless for Semantic Search — And What HNSW Does Insteadhttps://socraticagent.dev/blog/hnsw-indexing-in-semantic-search/Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://socraticagent.dev/blog/hnsw-indexing-in-semantic-search/A first-principles walkthrough of why B-tree index is useless for semantic search - And what HNSW does instead.How I Built My Blog and Hosted It for Free on Cloudflarehttps://socraticagent.dev/blog/how-to-build-blog-site/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://socraticagent.dev/blog/how-to-build-blog-site/A first-principles walkthrough of building a fast static blog with Hugo and deploying it for free on Cloudflare Pages.