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by lixtra 2469 days ago
> writing some relatively simple linear algebra

Except, that it wouldn’t work if it was purely linear.

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Right, yeah, it's linear algebra combined with a few non-linear functions. The point is that Salesforce didn't come up with an algorithm that generated English text by writing a grammar or thinking really hard about what sentences look like—all the functionality comes from the "training" process that set the constants.