Software, Geekery and other miscellany
For an LLM to work, it needs to somehow assign a meaning to a word. The problem is words can have different meanings in different contexts and be related to different words in multiple ways.
For example, Python and Java are related, so is Python and Cobra, and so is …
There is an interesting parallel between AI and written scripts.
Logographic scripts, like Chinese or Japanese Kanji, there is a separate 'glyph' to represent each word. If you can read the script, you can understand the meaning even if you don't know how to pronounce the word.
Phonetic scripts, like …
I was listening to a podcast today and Brian Holt was asked to pick something that everyone should check out. Normally folks pick the new hot thing that they are excited about. Brian picked Excel.
💯great pick.
Every alternate post on my timeline is about how Excel is obsolete, AI …