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blutfink··on LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
Of course an LLM uses more space internally for a token. But so do humans.

My point was that you compared how the LLM represents a token internally versus how “English” transmits a word. That’s a category error.

blutfink··on LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
The LLM can also “say” “cat” with few bits. Note that the meaning of the word as stored in your brain takes more than 24 bits.
blutfink··on Testing sync at Dropbox (2020)
(2020)*
blutfink··on Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
Betteridge's Law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
blutfink··on Why US Inequality Is Worse Than Other Developed Nations
But your total defense spending should be informed by your enemies' total defense spending, not necessarily by the size of your economy. From that perspective I find the above statement pretty illustrative.
blutfink··on Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising
I wonder if the family of Benjaman Kyle [0] will eventually be found as more and more people are added to the databases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle

blutfink··on The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
There are equivalent formulations of SR using quaternions.
blutfink··on Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
Headline is wrong. 68GJ per month, not GW, which is roughly 26kW.
blutfink··on A French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass
Wikipedia article about the psychiatric disorder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_delusion
blutfink··on Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)
The cost of a WebObjects deployment license was about $50,000 then.
blutfink··on Snowflake macro photography (2013)
;)

Selection by the photographer might create the impression of a more prevalent, more perfect symmetry than appears in nature.

blutfink··on Snowflake macro photography (2013)
I was wondering the same thing. Part of it may be selection bias, though.
blutfink··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)
My "little" brother is 11 months and 20 days younger than me.
blutfink··on Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
The "Reactions" table is hilarious – thanks for the link.