[FRIAM] genai and critical thinking

[Marcus Daniels]

“Please reflect on these weights and biases to find patterns associated with arithmetic.”
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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
To: friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] genai and critical thinking 


On 2/12/25 4:20 AM, glen wrote: 

This was interesting: 

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition 
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873> 

... definitely not what I'd do. But I'm terrible at addition. 
Fascinating... 
makes me imagine that biology (thinking d'Arcy Thompson and Morphometrics) has been building analogies of slide-rules which do all kinds of arithmetic? 


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