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Ask HN: Did you relate the Mind is Flat book to LLMs?

Posted by dataexp on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:32AM
from the ask-hn dept.

While reading the prologue of the book the mind is flat by Nick Chater published in 2018, the description is very similar to how a LLM works, that is it creates or predicts the next word without deep concepts about what is the structure of the future. Is an amazing analogy.Edited: Excerpt from that book, at the botton of page 8: When we begin to describe our feelings, or explain our actions,...

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Re:A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption on Monday May 06, 2024 @06:23AM (#40273025)
I wonder is there is some restricted kind of homomorphic encryption so that the encryption is tailored to be used for certain kind of programs. For example if the program is to compute the average of a list of numbers then some simple encryption could be done just to compute the average and nothing more. Is there some related concept to this idea of the encryption restricted to a concrete computation?
Re:Financial Market Applications of LLMs on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:20AM (#40104272)
Perhaps it would be easy to code a pseudo trading sequence given a model of the psychological state of the agents in the trading system

Ask HN: N-Grams with Context

Posted by dataexp on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hello, I am thinking in developing an algorithm similar to n-grams, the algorithm should use some recursive procedure to replace terms with context-terms so that the final result of this algorithm would be similar to an embedding, that is a function from n "context words" to probabilities for the next word. Do anyone of you know if this is a solved problem or any attempt in that directions....

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Re:2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:06AM (#39991541)
In (*) Scott Aaronson relates the impact of one of Avi Wigderson talks on his career.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2925