Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedEdward Gibson: belief
17 Apr 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
“I can give you a math formula for why each one of them is bad and where, and that’s kind of cool. I think that’s very neat.”
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- Speaker
- Edward Gibson
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 17 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, the simplicity of the theory is good. And yet it explains some very complicated phenomena. If I write these very complicated sentences, it’s kind of hard to know why they’re so hard. And you can like, oh, nail it down. I can give you a math formula for why each one of them is bad and where, and that’s kind of cool. I think that’s very neat. Have you gone through the process… Is there, if you take a piece of text and then simplify, there’s an average length of dependency and then you reduce it and see comprehension on the entire, not just a single sentence, but you go from James Joyce to Hemingway or something.…
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