Let’s talk about life.
DNA is the master blueprint that life uses to build and organize matter into entities that are capable of the local and temporal defeat of entropy. Yet, at the end of the day, DNA is still only an instruction set. Life has agency, purpose, and intention. Life is a force we still do not understand, nor may we ever understand from the perspective of the physical world. Let’s talk about it.
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Beyond the Simple Feature Detector Story – A Frank-said / GPT-said sequel on individual neurons, Multi-Layer Perceptrons, superposition, and polysemanticity
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Title: The Weight Landscape and the Living SignalA Frank-said / GPT-said Dialogue on Feature Detectors, Activation Flow, and Why ANN Weights Behave Like Compressed Semantic Circuitry
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MAC, dot product, and matrix multiply – frank said/gpt said
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Where the Dot Products Actually LiveA third Frank-said / GPT-said sequel on scalar dot products, matrix multiplies, and how each transformer equation expands into MAC counts
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Inside One Transformer BlockA deeper Frank-said / GPT-said sequel on tensor shapes, attention equations, and the MLP path in plain English
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Why the Math Load of an LLM Is Bigger Than It First LooksA Frank-said / GPT-said dialogue on matrix shapes, dot products, MACs vs FLOPs, and why MLP cost often dominates attention during prefill