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  • That’s really interesting! It shows which communities share users. I am part of jlai.lu, a french-speaking community that is relatively isolated by also slrpnk.net that seems very spread out!

    Would it make sense to compute the standard deviation of each instance’s communities? It would give an idea of which are islands and which are more extended. Not sure if it makes sense to compute it more on 2 dimensions or on the original 21934 though.





  • My point is that using “grokking” in ML is not a Musk/Twitter/Whatever-his-Ai-company-is-named invention, it predates their use.

    Yes the original researchers reused a pre-existing meaning, which has been in internet for a while before. I did not know it came from Heinlein and I did not know its full meaning. I remember seeing it first, more than a decade ago, in a text that explained without any explanation that an isolated unknown word can easily be groked from context. Demonstrating it immediately. To me (and I guess to those researchers) “grok” means “understanding from context” which is particularly appropriate in the context.

    BTW Elon was not the only one to reuse this word. Another company named Groq, totally unrelated to Musk as far as I know, designs AI acceleration chips.