Created: October 17, 2022
Modified: October 17, 2022
Modified: October 17, 2022
library of Babel
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf
Insights illustrated by this story:
- Naming or addressing something is ultimately equivalent to understanding or fully specifying the thing itself.
- Search over an exponentially large space is equivalent to creation (generative vs discriminative modeling).