Tag: Language

  • The hard part: A quote from Jason Gorman

    The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking — with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions — into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a…

  • How LLMs give semantic meaning to a prompt| ngrok blog

    In summary, embeddings are points in n-dimensional space that you can think of as the semantic meaning of the text they represent. During training, each token gets moved within this space to be close to other, similar tokens. The more dimensions, the more complex and nuanced the LLM’s representation of each token can be. —…

  • What ’67’ Reveals About Childhood Creativity – Atlas Obscura

    Language is still new to them, and they find difficulty in expressing themselves. When on their own they burst into rhyme, of no recognizable relevancy, as a cover in unexpected situations, to pass off an awkward meeting, to fill a silence, to hide a deeply felt emotion, or in a gasp of excitement.” This is…