[chipotle_coyote]

Yeah, it's true. I asked my grocery checker how an LLM works, and she rolled her eyes and said, "Come on, Chipotle, they're lexical analysis systems that operates by performing vector math operations on points in a vast multidimensional space that represent tokenized subwords, everyone can immediately intuit that based on the sixty-second cheerleading news clips they saw on CBS. What do you think I am, a Hacker News reader?" Then she threw a papaya at me.

[Last5Digits]

Understanding comes in many forms. My uncle will not be able to model the fuel flow in his car's engine using the Navier–Stokes equations, yet he can still drive better than me. When it comes to LLMs, an understanding of the transformer architecture is wholly unnecessary to develop a good model of their capabilities and pitfalls. HN commenters tend to lack both a technical and abstract understanding of LLMs, while non-tech people tend to only lack the former.

[hackable_sand]

" > you are a clerk at a local grocery store... "