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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 19:18:32 -0000 (UTC)
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solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>> 
> 
> It’s a pity the answer wasn’t 43, because Shakespeare gave
> us that question in hexadecimal 
> 

If I recall there were two solutions, the other possible answer being any
number EXCEPT 43, which is less than helpful.


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