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Quantity

Perplexity

decade1 connection

how many equally likely choices the model felt it was facing — cross-entropy, exponentiated

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell ismeasure × L0. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Overlays: Evaluation & methodology.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointPerplexitynothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

27More Is Differentact 6 · The Attention Revolution

Where it comes from

paperA Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude E. Shannon · 1948

Every connection

All 1 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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usesCross-entropyObjective

This page is a projection of one node in src/data/concepts.ts. It has no prose file of its own — 230 declared edges produce all 236 of these pages. Edit an edge and both endpoints change.