Comment by DrNosferatu

Comment by DrNosferatu 2 days ago

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Not exactly circles, but famously:

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant

KolibriFly a day ago

Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

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kbelder 2 days ago

"and with 20 billion I can make it hold a conversation."

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NitpickLawyer a day ago

To paraphrase that quote about hydrogen: Give gradient descent a few billion parameters, and it starts wondering where it came from and what does it all mean.

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kazinator a day ago

Bravo! HN Gold.

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WorkerBee28474 2 days ago

Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a

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rob74 a day ago

Looks more like an amoeba to me...

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ftigis 6 hours ago

How about this version?
https://levenspiel.com/elephants/
Can't find the source though

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