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Elon Litman
Personal blog · elonlit.com/scrivingsaimathscience
Elon Litman's personal blog at elonlit.com covers ai, math and science. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Your Transformer is Secretly an EOT Solver”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter linked Elon Litman's post 'A theory of deep learning' as a possible connection to the idea of a liminal inference space in language models, citing its 'error flow reservoir' concept.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Elon Litman's blog on deep learning theory.
Most-linked posts?
- Your Transformer is Secretly an EOT Solver3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-31
- How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
- A Theory of Deep Learning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
- The Annotated JEPA2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-14
What Hacker News says?
The idea of this liminal space (J-space) during inference reminded me of the concept of the "error flow reservoir" during training: https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/ . Would be interesting to see if they are somehow connected.
Comment linking /scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
on “A global workspace in language models”Submitted How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Theory of Deep Learning as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Transformer is Secretly an EOT Solver as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transformer Is an EOT Solver as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Annotated JEPA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Annotated JEPA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fallen Primes of Tohu as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Transformer Is secretly an EOT Solver as a story · 1 points
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