Christine
A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.
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- > Do they? I certainly don't. I don't know if it's my memory deficiency, but I frequently hit my "context window" when solving problems of sufficient complexity.
Human context windows are not linear. They have "holes" in them which are quickly filled with extrapolation that is frequently correct.
It's why you can give a human an entire novel, say "Christine" by Stephen King, then ask them questions about some other novel until their "context window" is filled, then switch to questions about "Christine" and they'll "remember" that they read the book (even if they get some of the details wrong).
> Can you provide some examples of problems where humans have such large context windows?
See above.
The reason is because humans don't just have a "context window", they have a working memory that is also their primary source of information.
IOW, if we change LLMs so that each query modifies the weights (i.e. each query is also another training data-point), then you wouldn't need a context window.
With humans, each new problem effectively retrains the weights to incorporate the new information. With current LLMs the architecture does not allow this.
- Christine by Stephen King. I am a King superfan and even I could not get through this, was just boring, there is only so much you can write about a possessed car and the novel is undeservedly huge. I have no problem with his other giant novels like The Stand and IT, love them.
Tried As I Lay Dying recently, maybe I just wasn't in the right headspace for it but I really couldn't make head nor tails of it. I was looking forward to reading Faulkner too, and this has soured me for a little bit.
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts defeated me. I was finding it interesting but I guess the sheer size put me off. I don't often read non-fiction so I find those a lot more difficult to get through, I want to work on that.
- Not just cars. Also (especially) ships. I think vessels of any sort actually. Don't forget that we name boats and some people name their cars too.
See also: Christine (Stephen King)
