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Borges's Library of Babel is my favorite treatment of the “what does it mean to say that numbers really exist?” question.

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I'll check that out.

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Jon, the real-ness of numbers reminded me of the twins in Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"... The relevant section is posted here:

https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/isoc/twins.htm

Some are skeptical of the story... But there's got to be patterns we humans don't (yet?) perceive...

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Thanks! Yeah, that's a great story. Someone mentioned it on Twitter, too. That book has been on my list for a while.

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for those looking for more on the concept of latent space:

detailed:

https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-latent-space-in-machine-learning-de5a7c687d8d

and ofc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_space

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Thanks, Jon, for the useful framework. I’m stoked for more of the series and to use it as inspiration / guide to get my hands dirty on some of these models. Super relevant content.

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Great primer. This might be interesting for you or your readers: https://github.com/rickhull/backprop

It covers the basics of neural nets, backward propagation, and gradient descent, along with minimal and simple ruby code, based on Andrej Karpathy's MicroGrad.

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I actually have this in my Notion db to dig into later :) I'm a rubyist and had been looking for something like this, so I'll definitely have to get into it and maybe write about it.

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Thank you, Jon. I'm eager for the next one.

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Great read. I wrote a small piece on the creator economy here: https://clarioncall.substack.com/p/the-book-that-predicted-the-creator

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