as in math
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
I haven't actually done the arithmetic yet, but I suspect we're losing money on the deal
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To me, this is a baby step toward understanding emergent properties in large language models, like suddenly being able to do arithmetic, answer questions in Greek, or things like that.
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Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
My colleague Julia Wick once did the arithmetic and calculated that these 14 acres represent less than one-thousandth of what the Valley possessed at its peak.
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Eleven volunteers who were unfamiliar to the dogs were put through a stress test involving public speaking and arithmetic while samples of their underarm sweat were gathered on pieces of cloth.
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Language models have learned to do surprising things that even those who trained them did not anticipate, including unscrambling words, performing eight-digit arithmetic, and solving mathematical word problems.
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Quanta Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
My colleague Julia Wick once did the arithmetic and calculated that these 14 acres represent less than one-thousandth of what the Valley possessed at its peak.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Eleven volunteers who were unfamiliar to the dogs were put through a stress test involving public speaking and arithmetic while samples of their underarm sweat were gathered on pieces of cloth.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
Language models have learned to do surprising things that even those who trained them did not anticipate, including unscrambling words, performing eight-digit arithmetic, and solving mathematical word problems.
—Josh A. Goldstein, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
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“Arithmetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arithmetic. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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