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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by olalonde on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:01AM (#35883817)
The battery (Voltaic Pile, 1800) and the telegraph (1830s-1840s) were both invented before the electron was discovered (1897).
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by red_admiral on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:41AM (#35885417)
Also Darwin published a theory of evolution, and Mendel discovered genetics, before anyone even thought of the term "double helix".
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by k99x55 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:34PM (#35889754)
No need for genetics to understand evolution...
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by tdrgabi on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:10AM (#35902359)
But they "didn't know how it worked", DNA was not discovered yet
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by pfdietz on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:35AM (#35887135)
Hell, consider all the technology that was developed before science really got going.
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Re:Language models can explain neurons in language models by k99x55 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:33PM (#35889746)
No need to know about electrons to understand electricity.
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