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randomImmigrant • 09/03/2026 • 1 reply • view on HN

> Calling a horse's reins as analogous to a cars steering wheel doesn't mean that the person making the analogy can't tell a horse from a car

When a person says “I crashed the car because my steering wheel tore, like reigns tear”, they are overfitting their analogy, and it’s perfectly fine to point out the structural and physical differences that make the analogy useless for the question at hand.

You have dismissed the biology that shows the problems with your analogy as immaterial. And continue to insist it’s the right one for the question at hand. This is a pretty pickle, because no facts can shake you from your certainty that you're right.

You seem in love with your analogy no matter how incorrect it is. And I have no problem with that. But when you put half baked biological claims to support it, I’ll point it out. If that’s too much for you to bear, maybe come up with better analogies?


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HarHarVeryFunny • 09/04/2026

> You seem in love with your analogy

Where the hell did you get that from?! I mentioned the hash table / embedding space analogy precisely ONCE, in my initial post, and, just to try to avoid people like yourself being triggered by it, I even included "obviously the brain is not a computer".

But you still got triggered by it, still did the dumb take of "a brain is not a computer" (no shit - I just said that), then spent your entire energy on fighting your own strawmen and not once even responding to my actual suggestion.

Now, finally, you are asking "what is a sparse embedding"! Maybe next time don't bother responding to something if you don't even understand what is being talked about.

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