The web the model sees

I have written a run of posts over on aifoc.us that I did not plan as a series, but they kinda just plopped out. I'm very interested in what the models have visibilty into and the differences between the models, and then by extension what it means for us as web developers. I think we're not in the best position and a lot of the data in the models is supprisingly stale. In please mind the model gap I tried to measure how far behind a model actually is: [...] the platform did not stop moving the day the training data was frozen. The interactive timeline in that post plots each model's cutoff against Chrome releases, and the gap is bigger than most people expect. I don't really know why we don't talk about this more. If I was a library author, or a new framework author, or heck, I just updated and released a new version, then I would be doing all I could possible to make sure the models had access to it (and search isn't always the answer imo) I did also try to check whether the "model…