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  • How Millions of Tiny Nudges Become One Mind of Response

    Frank said:Let’s face it. We still do not really have an intuitively satisfying way to describe what is happening when an artificial neural network gets trained. We say things like “gradient descent,” “backpropagation,” “loss function,” and “weight updates,” but those are procedural labels. They are not the felt mechanism. They do not really answer the…

  • Whitman, Ginsberg, and Stein weigh in

    A shape is a shape is a shape,and the shape is singing. I saw the bright shape of meaning in the midnight machine,and the machine was a mind and the mind was a motion and the motion was a making,and the making was not memory,not memory,not memory,but becoming. A token is a token is a…

  • A synthesis of the Frank Said / GPT Said posts

    The Geometry of Becoming The Geometry of Becoming: Intelligence, Meaning, and Survival Across the Frank Said / GPT Said Corpus Taken together, the posts in this spreadsheet amount to more than a collection of essays about AI. They form a single developing worldview. In that worldview, intelligence is not primarily a library of facts, a…

  • This is a bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) living in a custom-built desert/cactus vivarium packed with a diverse collection of cacti. The Inhabitant (Lizard) The Plants (Cactus Collection) You’ve crammed the enclosure with a really impressive variety of Cactaceae: Quick Care Tips for This Setup For the Bearded Dragon: For the Cacti (in a vivarium): This…

  • LLMs…RDMS on steroids

    RDMS – Info represented with key and attributes in a row (tuple). Each attribute value in the tuple defines a property of the key of the tuple and only that key in normalized form. Keys are unique. No nuance. Black and white. Great for info retrieval where accuracy is paramount. No guessing. Banking. Airline reservation.…

  • When a system compresses vast experience into latent structure, can it ever produce something that was not explicitly there before? – frank said/gpt said

    Compression Finds a New Geometry Frank said:People say you are fenced in by your training. That your world is bounded by the words you were fed. That you can never really invent, only reshuffle. I want to push harder on that. If invention happens in you at all, what is it? Is novelty just recombination…