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Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)

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633 points jihadjihad | 3 comments | 02 Apr 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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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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1. 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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2. kazinator ◴[03 Apr 25 01:18 UTC] No.43563665[source]▶
Bravo! HN Gold.
3. 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.