The Language Virus

Language itself has a few shocking properties that are similar to a real virus: Self-replication: it spreads from host to host. Symbiosis: one could argue that the language virus is so deeply embedded in our minds that we mistake it for our consciousness. Like a virus, language is a non-living pattern of information. Prof. Elan Barenholtz compares LLMs and humans and makes a few assumptions: ...

May 1, 2026 · 2 min · 392 words · Philipp Scheerer

Attention – 3D Similarity Cube

Traditional machine learning models are built to generalize. And while that works well in many cases, it’s also their Achilles’ heel—they often miss the sharp edges, the anomalies, the rare patterns that matter most. But transformers changed the game. ...

April 24, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Philipp Scheerer

Fuzzy Engine On Steroids

Fuzzy logic has long offered an elegant framework for reasoning under uncertainty – but designing good fuzzy systems has remained more of an art than a science. What if we could automate the design of fuzzy systems, make their internals differentiable, and even train them via gradient descent? ...

April 24, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Philipp Scheerer

The Holographic Model – A key in understanding neural networks and quantum computers?

TL;DR This post explores how principles of holography, quantum computing, and neural networks might share a common foundation in interference patterns. Could these parallels help us better understand AI, data storage, and brain functions? ...

January 1, 2025 · 9 min · 1744 words · Philipp Scheerer