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> Rather curiously, it turns "airplanes" into "knives". I do not understand why this happens. I thought it was pretty obvious. The atoms are complected (define
by SolarNet 10y ago
> Rather curiously, it turns "airplanes" into "knives". I do not understand why this happens.
I thought it was pretty obvious. The atoms are complected (defined - by Rich Hickey of Clojure - as, basically, a semantic that contains multiple interdependent concepts (for example how variables complect state, values, and names)). In fact that's the conceit of the whole idea, the thought vector is being extracted from the sparse matrix, sometimes that sparse matrix isn't that sparse and you will get complected concepts. It was obvious in the earlier pics. One atom might contain a piece of information needed by a hat, that when combined with other atoms makes a hat, but when combined with a different set makes a headband.
For example if you look knives is shared with scissors. It's one atom describing roughly "handheld sharp objects". The airplane atom + many items atom is actually a special mutation for many knives. Where as the many items atom + sharp objects atom is likely scissors. And the sharp object + airplane atoms are probably knife. They are all complected and interdependent.
Sure an atom may generally mean a specific concept but sometimes it will fall back to a combination specific mutation. For example there aren't often many planes, and many planes looks rather like many knives. And there probably aren't ever more than one pair of scissors, and one pair of scissors looks rather like two knives. It's a way to describe 3 things and their number (knives, scissors, plane) using 2 things, an existing counting mutator, and the fact that scissors and planes are often singular. It's a form of semantic compression, quite interesting, and I would imagine domain dependent.
That's my hypothesis anyway.
- jawns 10y agoThis explanation reminds me of a concept in ASL (American Sign Language) called Classifiers: https://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/baron/Summer%20Courses/ASL%20223/ASL223ASLClassifiers.htm https://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/baron/Summer%20Courses/AS... They are "class" modifiers that modify different nouns in different ways.