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Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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I've heard, but never confirmed, that you get Mathematica for free when you purchase a Raspberry Pi.

You do. I used it like that for many years, until I could afford the PC version. The raspberry pi version is version-capped though, to whatever they have released up to that point for that platform.

Are there restrictions against running it on a more powerful arm64 server?

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"Perfect third"?

A perfect third is a music term where the periods of two periodic signals (sounds) have a frequency ratio of 4:5. Including this shows the LLM can integrate knowledge from different domains: music, math, flags of the world, and Mathematica.

There's no such thing as a perfect third in music theory, only perfect 4ths and 5ths, which explains the 4:5 ratio. There's major/minor (imperfect) thirds.

Interesting test of LLMs, this one failed.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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"Perfect third"?

A perfect third is a music term where the periods of two periodic signals (sounds) have a frequency ratio of 4:5. Including this shows the LLM can integrate knowledge from different domains: music, math, flags of the world, and Mathematica.

4:5 is a major third. "Perfect third" isn't really a thing in western music theory. Just found it odd the LLM didn't pick up on that.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do. I used it like that for many years, until I could afford the PC version. The raspberry pi version is version-capped though, to whatever they have released up to that point for that platform.

Are there restrictions against running it on a more powerful arm64 server?

This is an interesting question (which I don't know the answer to) because the Raspberry Pi hardware does not itself come with a license for Mathematica or the software in question. Rather, it's part of the Raspbian distribution. I think there's a decent chance that you agree to an EULA after installing the software that would prohibit running it on other hardware, but it would be interesting to hear something definite.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A perfect third is a music term where the periods of two periodic signals (sounds) have a frequency ratio of 4:5. Including this shows the LLM can integrate knowledge from different domains: music, math, flags of the world, and Mathematica.

There's no such thing as a perfect third in music theory, only perfect 4ths and 5ths, which explains the 4:5 ratio. There's major/minor (imperfect) thirds. Interesting test of LLMs, this one failed.

While "perfect third" may not exist as a name for an interval, it does make sense to apply the adjective "perfect" to the interval "third" in order to distinguish a just intonation third (4/5) from a well-tempered intonation third (1/2)^(4/12).

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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Symbolic AI could never become great because it was missing the connection to the intricacies of the real world that you can only get from data. I think a symbioses of symbolic techniques with LLMs or generally multimodal autoregressive foundation models will lead to our first legit "AGIish" agents. The LLM takes the role of a little gremlin inside the machine that provides the magic sauce, that tiny bit of general intelligence or common sense necessary to connect arbitrary interfaces.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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post #15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no such thing as a perfect third in music theory, only perfect 4ths and 5ths, which explains the 4:5 ratio. There's major/minor (imperfect) thirds. Interesting test of LLMs, this one failed.

While "perfect third" may not exist as a name for an interval, it does make sense to apply the adjective "perfect" to the interval "third" in order to distinguish a just intonation third (4/5) from a well-tempered intonation third (1/2)^(4/12).

You can construct a system under which the phrase makes sense but musicians and musicologists will look at you weird if you say it. The LLM just forges bravely on, however.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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This is quite impressive. Especially the auto-correcting and error reporting. I always thought of Mathematica as a cool, but not worth the price technology. This LLM integration into the notebooks is totally increasing the value and making me consider giving it a try.

I've heard, but never confirmed, that you get Mathematica for free when you purchase a Raspberry Pi.

Yes, but if you download raspbian to run in on virtualbox or similar it is not there. I guess they have different licenses.

Re: LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language

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post #15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no such thing as a perfect third in music theory, only perfect 4ths and 5ths, which explains the 4:5 ratio. There's major/minor (imperfect) thirds. Interesting test of LLMs, this one failed.

While "perfect third" may not exist as a name for an interval, it does make sense to apply the adjective "perfect" to the interval "third" in order to distinguish a just intonation third (4/5) from a well-tempered intonation third (1/2)^(4/12).

Example usage here,

https://archive.org/details/onsensationston01helmgoog/page/3...

(by Helmholtz of Helmholtz Equation)

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