Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

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34 points·imichael··6 comments

I know its pedantic (we're on hacker news), but you cant treat latitude and longitude as vectors. I know its just for an analogy but enough people misunderstand lat and long already lol

Well "pedant" means "talking to young learners", and we are here to learn (and exchange),

but I do not think it is appropriate to call this public «pedantic» there where it strongly seems that "pedant" is used to mean "focused on the trifle". This public includes esteemed prestigious professionals. And people with achievements - who must have had some good focus to get there.

Pedantically explained.

Trivially noted (and /that/ is the typical use of "pedantic").

Whereas, substance wise, there is an inquisitive intention. And a different point.

So sad, it seemed like such a good article, and then the inevitable, completely evidence-free and wishfully supernatural assertion:

> This is just one of many examples of language models appearing to spontaneously develop high-level reasoning capabilities. In April, researchers at Microsoft published a paper arguing that GPT-4 showed early, tantalizing hints of artificial general intelligence—the ability to think in a sophisticated, human-like way.

Pass.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead

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