Sebastian Harvey Vaderaa

Counts, not Weights: The first stage of LOCUS: filing novels with no neural network

A reader that returns to a novel after a week away can usually recover, within a page, where it was andwho each character is. That recovery precedes any understanding of the book, and this note askswhether it can be achieved without a neural network. LOCUS is a symbolic system th...

A world it builds itself: Open-world rule discovery for the Coherent World Hypothesis

The coherent world hypothesis holds that a system understands something when it can build a small runnable world in which that thing makes sense. Every earlier LOCUS result chose among worlds or meanings that we listed for it. This note asks how a system could build the world its...

A world it builds itself: Open-world rule discovery for the Coherent World Hypothesis

The coherent world hypothesis holds that a system understands something when it can build a small runnable world in which that thing makes sense. Every earlier LOCUS result chose among worlds or meanings that we listed for it. This note asks how a system could build the world its...