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Onavoyesterday at 2:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Interesting, what about the old proof that neural networks can't model arbitrary length sine waves?


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ChadNauseamtoday at 1:00 AM

I don't know that computers can model arbitrary length sine waves either. At least not in the sense of me being able to input any `x` and get `sin(x)` back out. All computers have finite memory, meaning they can only represent a finite number of numbers, so there is some number `x` above which they can't represent any number.

Neural networks are more limited of course, because there's no way to expand their equivalent of memory, while it's easy to expand a computer's memory.

kirubakaranyesterday at 5:20 PM

That proof only applies to fixed architecture feed forward multilayer perceptrons with no recurrence, iirc. Transformers are not that.