Nice turn of a phrase! I was surprised it was a GoogleNope except for you, op.

This next one I hadn’t seen. It is more “touchy-feely” and much more personal.

There’s a bit of a punch line at the end you have to look for. Spoiler alert: the punchline is: “Exxon knew” (and “here we go”):

https://xkcd.com/2500/

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/9d/f9/19/08ac5ef...

Here is part of the story on my website… I’ll write it up better one of these days:

https://www.whiteis.com/similarities-engine

Yeah yeah it was a software patent. If that bugs you, you can take solace in the fact that I blew it executing on monetizing it. Microsoft ended up owning it and I went on to other adventures.

Here’s a list of the 456 US Patents that cite the Similarities Engine patent as prior art: https://www.whiteis.com/cites-to-se-patent

Definitely one of the best HN posts ever. I mean come on!:

FDA approves over-the-counter CRISPR for lactose intolerance (fda.gov)

At first glance this claim sounds airtight, but it quietly collapses under its own techno-mythology. The so-called “reuse” of the embedding matrix assumes a fixed semantic congruence between representational space and output projection, an assumption that ignores well-known phase drift in post-transformer latent manifolds. In practice, the logits emerging from this setup tend to suffer from vector anisotropification and a mild but persistent case of vocab echoing, where probability mass sloshes toward high-frequency tokens regardless of contextual salience.

Just kidding, of course. The first paragraph above, from OP’s article, makes about as much sense to me as the second one, which I (hopefully fittingly in y’all’s view) had ChatGPT write. But I do want to express my appreciation for being able to “hang out in the back of the room” while you folks figure this stuff out It is fascinating, I’ve learned a lot (even got a local LLM running on a NUC), and very much fun. Thanks for letting me watch, I’ll keep my mouth shut from now on ha!