Reader Meaning / Semiosis / Structure The Associative Manifold
The smooth, high-dimensional structure of interconnected concepts within both human minds and language models, where islands of intelligibility give way to liminal zones of interconcept space.
Appears in 5 texts
2024-12-09 Vibrations Across Substrates "This idea that we can look close at a concept, and always find more detail, is the multi-fractal property of language."2024-08-04 Associative tools, thinking, and creativity "Computational models have enabled researchers to look at the quality of associative thinking with greater detail... Semantic similarity can then be calculated by measuring the cosine angle between word vectors in high-dimensional semantic/vector space."2024-07-12 Associative data structures "In essence, this kind of approach is allowing you to traverse the model inner associative networks, thus moving you across the associative manifold, pin-pointing concepts in latent space."2024-07-04 Semiosis "If the model is able to triangulate patterns based on multiple representations, we might say that its beginning to form a kind of associative manifold or network of associations that smoothly interconnect."2024-06-25 Networks and meaning "Meaning is deferred and always in flux. Drawing on Derrida neologism differance, which combines the meanings of difference and deferral, suggests that the meaning of a sign is never fully present or fixed."