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Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

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633 points jihadjihad | 8 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 1.857s | source | bottom
1. DrNosferatu ◴[02 Apr 25 16:58 UTC] No.43558773[source]▶
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

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2. WorkerBee28474 ◴[02 Apr 25 21:14 UTC] No.43561695[source]▶
Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a
3. kbelder ◴[02 Apr 25 21:33 UTC] No.43561885[source]▶
"and with 20 billion I can make it hold a conversation."
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4. kazinator ◴[03 Apr 25 01:18 UTC] No.43563665[source]▶
Bravo! HN Gold.
5. KolibriFly ◴[03 Apr 25 05:26 UTC] No.43565087[source]▶
Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
6. NitpickLawyer ◴[03 Apr 25 05:45 UTC] No.43565226[source]▶
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.
7. rob74 ◴[03 Apr 25 08:33 UTC] No.43566644[source]▶
Looks more like an amoeba to me...
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8. ftigis ◴[04 Apr 25 03:31 UTC] No.43578063[source]▶
How about this version?

https://levenspiel.com/elephants/

Can't find the source though