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You've put to words what I've been thinking about for many years. I'm one of those people who find languages difficult and often find it difficult to convert my
by nitred 5y ago
You've put to words what I've been thinking about for many years. I'm one of those people who find languages difficult and often find it difficult to convert my thoughts into words and sentences. From my perspective, 75 percent of mental effort goes into sentence formation and this process often derails my thought process.
When I discovered NLP models like Word2Vec and Thought-Vectors, which assign vectors to words or even whole sentences/concepts, intuitively, it felt like that was exactly what was happening in my mind. It might be an illusion but I do not think in sentences or words, I only think in concepts and images that appear in my mind's eye in an instant. To form a larger idea, I build a chain of concepts. I am sure that eventually probes can pick up a clear distinct vector that uniquely summarizes the entire concept of what I was thinking or visualizing.
And as you suggested we could start off with a smaller subset of semaphores or concepts or visualizations that at first are the easiest signals to pick up via probes. After practice, these signals only get crisper.
- rblatz 5y agoThanks for putting words to something I’ve been living with but unable to express.
- corndoge 5y agoCan I ask if/how much you read books? I have a hypothesis I'm gathering data on.
- nitred 5y agoDiscounting fantasy or sci-fi novels, I read about 6-12 non-fiction books a year and I usually only finish them half or quarter of the way.