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on July 11, 2023
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Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learni...
There are an infinite number of rational numbers, but if you only understood the rationals then you wouldn’t understand pi or e. Or even sqrt(2).
Infinities can be very constraining.
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Infinities can be very constraining.