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What is a perversion to writing?
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Birchtree
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Aug. 19, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
LLMs
Technology
Computing
artificial-intelligence
Summary
Birchtree discusses Simon Wilson's insightful description of large language models (LLMs) as 'calculators for words,' comparing their function to traditional calculators that process numbers and operators to produce answers.
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