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by deng 661 days ago
Say what you will about Wolfram: he's a brilliant writer and teacher. The way he's able to simplify complex topics without dumbing them down is remarkable. His visualizations are not only extremely helpful but usually also beautiful, and if you happen to have Mathematica on hand, you can easily reproduce what he's doing. Anytime someone asks me for a quick introduction to LLMs, I always point them to this article of his, which I still think is one of best and most understandable introductions to the topic:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

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“entropy is the log of the number of states that a system can be in that are consistent with all the information known about that system”. he is amazing at explaining things.