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…6 min read·Sep 4, 2021----
PinnedAbhijit MahabalThree Layers of Understanding a Message: A common thread connecting Astrology, Cryptic Crosswords…The Bottle7 min read·Aug 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…16 min read·Apr 30, 2021--1--1
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…7 min read·Apr 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…9 min read·Feb 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…7 min read·Feb 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…2 min read·Aug 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…3 min read·Aug 14, 2021--1--1
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…7 min read·Aug 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…10 min read·Dec 29, 2019--2--2