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Subject: Re: The answer is 42
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On 2024-10-06 00:46:48 +0000, Woozy Song said:
> Your Name wrote:
>> On 2024-10-05 07:58:32 +0000, Woozy Song said:
>>> 
>>> Some useless information: Plots of test loss versus dataset size for 
>>> large language models give you an equation that computes the dimension 
>>> of natural language as 42.
>>> Both OpenAI and Google research arrived at this.
>> 
>> Yet more "AI" (Ass-ified Ignorance) garbled nonsense.  :-\
> 
> Maybe, I wondered if 'dimension' would be the number of phonemes, but 
> English has 44 phonemes. Close but no cigar.

There are many different numbers for "the dimensions of natural 
language" depending on which of the numerous "definitions" you choose 
to use, but none of them that I can find come anywhere near 42.