News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Models all the way down. Parent comment

Re:Models all the way down by kelseyfrog on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:23AM (#39881680)
Literature that is not simply read from start to end in the normal way.

This is a but vague, so examples may help. Choose your own adventure series, House of Leaves, ELIZA, One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems.

If you want to stretch the idea, you could consider LLM output to be ergodic literature of the training data in that it cuts up the corpus and resynthesizes it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Models all the way down by adammarples on Sunday March 31, 2024 @06:38AM (#39883054)
Strange term, choose your own adventure is non-ergodic, there are many failure states you can land on. Meanwhile, most normal literature is already ergodic under the normal definition.
[ Parent | on HN ]