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A categorical distribution can specify probabilities for every token in a discrete set.
Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026
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“Right, you have all your tokens and you choose which one to actually get and a categorical distribution is more or less like it's the universal thing I can always just write down the probabilities of everything”12:18Report a misattribution
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