Shannon San... @max_paperclips
— reply from Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01)
Shannon Sands @max_paperclips
the not-really-proven-but-plausible explanation is that depth = better reasoning (ie, deeper networks are better function approximators). Depth for reasoning, girth for recall
10:38 PM · Apr 29, 2025 · 19 Views
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Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 · 1m
yep
fucking girth had me dead
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A casual technical exchange positing that network depth correlates with reasoning ability while width ("girth") correlates with recall/memorization — an informal architecture heuristic in ML Twitter discourse, tangential to Nathan's own neural architecture work (brain_graph_1 depth-vs-width experiments).
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