Attending a lecture

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0600

I attended yesterday a lecture by Geoffrey Hinton - the part about LLMs and how they work was helpful and sometimes bizarre - the image of a word with 1000s of trailing hands and gloves that enable it to connect in specific ways with other words was disturbing and begged for a drawing. It’s interesting that there wasn’t a single image in the presentation: just dense text that served more as speaker’s notes than a support for audience understanding.

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Attending a lecture