Re:The Alien Space of Science
by nasimrahaman_tt on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:30AM
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> I made it to the first figure in the paper before I raised an eyebrow at this term.
I came up with that name, and fair eyebrow. Think of an "atom" as a unit of a working vocabulary (a "token"), not a Platonic form. It's a way of compressing the corpus (paraphrases of the same idea across papers get merged into one symbol, a bit like a tokenizer's vocabulary).
We also talk about some limitations of this framing in page 11 (towards the top).
I came up with that name, and fair eyebrow. Think of an "atom" as a unit of a working vocabulary (a "token"), not a Platonic form. It's a way of compressing the corpus (paraphrases of the same idea across papers get merged into one symbol, a bit like a tokenizer's vocabulary).
We also talk about some limitations of this framing in page 11 (towards the top).