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WHY LANGUAGE IS SPARSE // Zipf & the dark vocab

a few words do all the work · most of the vocabulary is dark at any moment · that is the sparsity superposition needs
2D · Zipf law + coverage
CANVAS 2D
2D UNAVAILABLE
3D · the vocab sky — bright few, dark many
SOFT-GL · NO LIB
DRAG TO ROTATE
RENDER FAILED

🧸 toddler corner · Bit, page 7

Bit has a gigantic toybox — 12,631 toys. But whenever he plays, he only ever grabs about 34 at a time. The other ~12,600 sit in the dark, untouched.

And even those 34 aren't equal: a tiny handful of favorites (the, and, to) come out constantly, while most toys he's touched maybe once ever.

THAT'S the secret to his closet trick. He can angle-pack thousands of toys into a few shelves precisely because he never grabs enough at once to make mush. Language hands him sparsity for free — so superposition just works.

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