Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?(shwin.co)
424 points by shw1n | 332 comments
A July 2024 blog post by Ashwin Mathews arguing that creativity stems from memorizing patterns, citing systems for DJ transitions and humor.
#memorization on Hacker News
4 stories tagged memorization, newest first.
Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards(apps.ankiweb.net)
430 points by bcg361 | 370 comments
Homepage of Anki, a cross-platform spaced-repetition flash card app for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and web.
Can LLMs learn from a single example?(fast.ai)
387 points by jdkee | 117 comments
A fast.ai blog post by Jeremy Howard and Jonathan Whitaker on unusual fine-tuning loss curves suggesting LLMs can memorize examples after seeing them once.
Do Machine Learning Models Memorize or Generalize?(pair.withgoogle.com)
395 points by 1wheel | 176 comments
Google PAIR interactive explorable from August 2023 explaining grokking, where models suddenly shift from memorizing training data to generalizing.