
Ep. 146 - Math, Language, and Intelligence with Tai-Danae Bradley
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You Shall Know a Word by the Company It Keeps
i don't know what the right definition of understanding is or or meaning, but i think there are enough examples where you can play around with gpt three in you and it gives you some funny answer. My second thought, if i could take this back to mathematics, am, this question brings to mind a quote that you might be familiar with, and your listeners might be as well. From this is a quote from a linguist named john firth back in 19 57, who said, you shall know a word by the company it keeps. It's kind of suggesting, hey, if you want to understand something about the meaning of a word, and like, maybe later on you can
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