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Subject: Re: The answer is 42
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 09:32:53 +1300
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On 2024-10-06 06:53:09 +0000, The Last Doctor said:
> 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?

The question is "Why anybody is stupid enough to use idiotic "AI" 
(Ass-ified Ignorance) in the first place?"

"42" is excaly the useless type of garbagised nonsense answer you'll 
get from it.