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From Text to Structure

Teaching machines to handle words.

pulp Field DeskJul 8, 20262 minute read

What reading really is

Teaching a machine to read is how we learn what reading really is. Every step — splitting text into tokens, mapping tokens to vectors, folding context back in — forces a decision about what meaning is made of.

This corner of Numbers follows language from raw characters to a structure a computer can act on, and notices where the translation quietly throws information away.

Reference entries are on the way. Until then, the useful intuition is that a model sees geometry where you see words.