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Ask HN: Does Claude use 'prior' in a Bayesian sense more than English?

3•slake•7h ago
Just an observation. When asked to summarize articles, or extract insights, I see the word 'prior' being used a lot more by Claude than usual English language writing (Journalistic essence). And it's clearly using it in a Bayesian sense, because it's always mentioning things like 'Updating priors', 'the prior doesn't hold', etc.

Probably something I noticed after reading the 'goblin' and 'gremlin' article.

Comments

ex-aws-dude•4h ago
Once again a post with literally 3 points and 2 hours old is the top of /ask

Why is the HN algorithm such ass, can we talk about that?

pbkompasz•4h ago
Well it did have Claude both in the title and the description...
bjourne•1h ago
Probably? Reinforcement learning creates bots with specific styles. For example, ChatGPT is very fond of "typically", "unpack this", and "if you want".

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