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Oceania has always been context engineering. Its been interesting to see this prioritized in the zeitgeist over the last 6 months from the "long context" zeitgeist.

the interesting advance in the anthropic/mats research program is the application of dictionary learning to the "superpositioned" latent representations of transformers to find more "interpretable" features. however, "interpretability" is generally scored by the explainer/interpreter paradigm which is a bit ad hoc, and true automated circuit discovery (rather than simple concept representation) is still a bit off afaik.

How much of this is due to DNNs (e.g. VAEs but also others) forcing embeddings to distribute in a Gaussianish manner? Is the data intrinsically missing geometry or could a more subtle learning algorithm give a cleaner manifold and therefore more efficiently indexable structure?