“Please reflect on these weights and biases to find patterns associated with 
arithmetic.”
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From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of steve smith 
<[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] genai and critical thinking 


On 2/12/25 4:20 AM, glen wrote: 

This was interesting: 

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition 
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873> 

... definitely not what I'd do. But I'm terrible at addition. 
Fascinating... 
makes me imagine that biology (thinking d'Arcy Thompson and Morphometrics) has 
been building analogies of slide-rules which do all kinds of arithmetic? 


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