Tarik Dzekman
tarikdzekman.bsky.social
Tarik Dzekman
@tarikdzekman.bsky.social
Trying to build a machine that thinks. Writing about AI and the nature of consciousness.

Lead AI Engineer @ Affinda.
What does a large language models “understand” about the text it reads? I wrote a detailed breakdown a while back, trying to take a nuanced view on AI and the concept of understanding.

towardsdatascience.com/what-do-larg...
What Do Large Language Models “Understand”?
A deep dive on the meaning of understanding and how it applies to LLMs
towardsdatascience.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I wrote a pretty long article going through the math of the bias-variance trade-off in deep learning.

I use a lot of visualisations to build visual intuition for the equations.

Still, I'm surprised at how many people have been interested in reading it.

towardsdatascience.com/ai-math-the-...
AI Math: The Bias-Variance Trade-off in Deep Learning
A visual tour from classical statistics to the nuances of deep learning
towardsdatascience.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:17 AM
For those who can understand it, this diagram encapsulates so many of the world's problems. It's been a long time since I studied Game Theory but this diagram of 2x2 games really struck a chord with me.

So much of life is being forced to play games that have been decided for us.
November 28, 2024 at 4:22 AM