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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

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Re: I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

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                       agent memory
                             |
              +--------------+--------------+
              |                             |
       deductive state               episodic memory
              |                             |
       facts / rules / time          fuzzy context
       provenance                    semantic retrieval
       retractions                   source text

Well this turns out, just like human memory functions. (Semantic vs episodic memory)

Re: I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

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I reached a similar conclusion: LLMs should only really sit at the terminals of request fulfilment. 1. User request understanding: natural language -> a more rigorous representation, in my case Datalog. 2. Result interpretation: facts and derived facts -> natural language. Between those terminals, the work should be mechanical reasoning over some ontology or formal knowledge structure. That connects to another princi…

When i hear “weathering” i think of something slowly eroding away

Weather is fun choice since it’s a contronym. It has opposing definitions: to endure and to erode.

“He weathered the storm” vs “the stone weathered into an arch”.

Re: I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

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post #102
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When i hear “weathering” i think of something slowly eroding away

Weather is fun choice since it’s a contronym. It has opposing definitions: to endure and to erode. “He weathered the storm” vs “the stone weathered into an arch”.

Really (in your example) the timeframe is the only difference.

You can endure as long as you want to, but we're all going to erode eventually.

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