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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The answer is 42
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 06:53:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 

It’s all very well saying the answer is 42, but what is the question?

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