PinnedAbhijit MahabalOn Simultaneous MeaningsTo the extent that the Mitch Hedberg quote above is funny, the humor resides in the multiple meanings of the initial sentence “I used to do…Sep 4, 2021Sep 4, 2021
PinnedAbhijit MahabalThree Layers of Understanding a Message: A common thread connecting Astrology, Cryptic Crosswords…The BottleAug 16, 2021Aug 16, 2021
PinnedAbhijit MahabalChess PerceptionThe goals of this post are modest. The previous post about chess thinking outlined how humans don’t first generate a list of legal moves…Apr 30, 20211Apr 30, 20211
PinnedAbhijit MahabalChess as a window onto cognitionChess offers us an interesting window into cognition. Millions of chess games are available for free. Games come labeled with the rough…Apr 10, 2021Apr 10, 2021
Abhijit MahabalWhy ChatGPT is bad at math and at facts(I have moved to Substack: https://amahabal.substack.com/. I will cross-post a few here, but if you want to follow my posts, please…Feb 26, 2023Feb 26, 2023
Abhijit MahabalUnderstanding ChatGPT through what ChatGPT Understands(I have moved to Substack: https://amahabal.substack.com/. I will cross-post a few here, but if you want to follow my posts, please…Feb 26, 2023Feb 26, 2023
Abhijit MahabalA curious mismatch between “human eval” and StockfishHuman understanding of chess situations is fallible, yes, but this example from an over-the-board game I played yesterday (with a player…Aug 28, 2022Aug 28, 2022
Abhijit MahabalWord Meaning is FluidWord meaning is fluid and shaped by expectations. Just as a fluid takes the shape of its container, so too the context of a word forms a…Aug 14, 20211Aug 14, 20211
Abhijit MahabalWord Meaning is CreativeIt is a commonplace notion that most words have a particular meaning (with the caveat that sometimes they have a handful of meanings for…Aug 9, 2021Aug 9, 2021
Abhijit MahabalHalfway between Marcus and BengioWhat symbols are for Marcus differs from what symbols are for Bengio — and in between those extremes exists another possibility that…Dec 29, 20192Dec 29, 20192
