Comment by DrNosferatu
1 year ago
Not exactly circles, but famously:
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
1 year ago
Not exactly circles, but famously:
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.
Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
"and with 20 billion I can make it hold a conversation."
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.
Bravo! HN Gold.
Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a
Looks more like an amoeba to me...
How about this version?
https://levenspiel.com/elephants/
Can't find the source though