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DrNosferatu 10 days ago

Not exactly circles, but famously:

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant

KolibriFly 10 days ago | parent | next [-]

Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

kbelder 10 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"and with 20 billion I can make it hold a conversation."

NitpickLawyer 10 days ago | parent | next [-]

To paraphrase that quote about hydrogen: Give gradient descent a few billion parameters, and it starts wondering where it came from and what does it all mean.

kazinator 10 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Bravo! HN Gold.

WorkerBee28474 10 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a

rob74 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks more like an amoeba to me...

ftigis 9 days ago | parent [-]

How about this version?

https://levenspiel.com/elephants/

Can't find the source though