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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: The answer is 42
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 20:58:17 +1100
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The Last Doctor wrote on 6/10/24 5:53 pm:
> 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?
> 
Have you got 10 Billion years to spare??
-- 
Daniel