History Rhymes: Large Language Models Off to a Bad Start? New series where I look at historical newspapers for insight into today's events. This one's free, check it out.

Received a nice comment on the other app explaining it from the “LLM Math” perspective.

The transformer’s internal “silence” reaches for the next token. Ballard’s silence reaches for the stars.

Ballard’s Test: An entity does not possess capacity for understanding until reason is demonstrated in the absence of language.