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Wednesday November 04 2026
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Lesson 5.2: Reading the log Updated Markdown page
Learners open EI: Log, read the requests grouped into turns, filter by date, action, model, provider, region and errors, switch to Versions written, and export the filtered requests as CSV. 30 minutes.
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Module 6: Responsible use Updated Markdown page
The sixth module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Learners keep personal data out of requests, review AI output with a checklist, and use the assistant economically within the site's limits. 2 hours 25 minutes.
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Lesson 6.3: Cost, limits and fair use Updated Markdown page
Learners read the estimated cost of their use, explain the site's limits and monthly budget, and use the assistant economically, with the right model, short conversations and plans for bulk work. 30 minutes.
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Lesson 6.1: Privacy: what goes to the provider, and what never should Updated Markdown page
Learners explain what the assistant sends to a model provider, apply the rule never to put personal data into a request, recognize the data policy's refusals, and rewrite unsafe briefs. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 6.2: Reviewing AI output Updated Markdown page
Learners review AI drafts with a checklist, facts, numbers, names, links, tone, bias, structure and accessibility, recognize prompt injection, and decide what may be published under their name. 60 minutes.
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Module 7: Administration Updated Markdown page
The last module of the Exponential Intelligence course. Administrators read providers and models, switch the assistant on with keys, limits and budgets, produce EI: Summary; everyone ends with a capstone editorial task…
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Lesson 7.4: Capstone, an editorial task end to end Updated Markdown page
Learners complete one editorial task with the assistant on their own, a safe brief, drafts, field actions, alt text, a review with the checklist, approval, and a cost check, and the trainer assesses it against a list…
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Lesson 7.1: Providers and models Updated Markdown page
Administrators read the Models and providers page, explain providers, regions, keys, the tool-calling probe and the write gate, use a test prompt, and decide which models editors may use. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 7.2: Switching on, keys, limits and budgets Updated Markdown page
Administrators follow the steps to switch the assistant on, keep keys out of the repository, use the master switch and per-siteaccess switch, set usage limits, and read EI: Budgets. 60 minutes.
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Lesson 7.3: EI: Summary, the help pages and the audit trail Updated Markdown page
Administrators produce the printable EI: Summary page for a data protection officer, find every topic in EI: Help, and know what the audit trail records about the assistant and what it never records. 30 minutes.
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Hosting and operations: course overview Updated Markdown page
The course for system administrators and hosting staff who run Exponential sites, serving the site, Velocity, databases, deploying and cron, monitoring and logs, backups and recovery, performance and scaling. Seven…
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Module 1: Serving the site Updated Markdown page
The first module of Hosting and operations, how a request is served, Apache and nginx with PHP-FPM, PHP-FPM pools and tuning, OPcache and APCu. Four lessons, 2 hours 45 minutes.
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Lesson 1.2: Apache and nginx with PHP-FPM Updated Markdown page
Learners set up an Apache virtual host with PHP-FPM for a training installation, compare it with the derived nginx server block, and fix file ownership so every writer uses one user. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 1.1: How a request is served Updated Markdown page
Learners compare the four ways to serve an Exponential site, trace a request through the routing rules and prove with four curl requests that the rules are active. 40 minutes.
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Lesson 1.4: OPcache and APCu Updated Markdown page
Learners configure OPcache for PHP-FPM, explain why Velocity ships different OPcache options, and read the opcode cache profile to see whether files are really cached. 35 minutes.
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Lesson 1.3: PHP-FPM pools and tuning Updated Markdown page
Learners set the PHP values Exponential needs in a PHP-FPM pool, line up the timeouts, check APCu, and find and reload the master that really serves the site. 45 minutes.
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Module 2: Velocity Updated Markdown page
The second module of Hosting and operations, what Velocity is, keeping it running, workers and pools, the response cache and HTTPS certificates. Four lessons, 3 hours.
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Lesson 2.2: Keeping Velocity running Updated Markdown page
Learners stop, restart and gracefully reload Velocity, write a boot unit that runs exp:velocity, read the watchdog's behavior and find the server's logs and its configuration tree. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 2.4: The response cache and HTTPS certificates Updated Markdown page
Learners prove a response-cache hit, explain what the cache never stores and how to clear it, then switch on HTTPS with a certificate pair and read it with exp:velocity ssl show. 45 minutes.
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Lesson 2.1: What Velocity is and a first start Updated Markdown page
Learners explain how Velocity serves a site with a parent process and persistent workers, choose the qbix engine, change settings with exp:velocity config and start and check the server. 45 minutes.