Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI and Deep Learning
Inside the Past Tense: Raw Letters, Raw Sound
30 August 2026 22:46 Arshavir Blackwell, PhD
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Can a model learn past tense the way children seem to, if you remove the tokenizer from the equation? This final installment tests raw letters and raw sound, probes whether a U-shaped pattern can be forced, and shows why the answer points to distributed, frequency-driven learning rather than a discrete rule.
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