Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work?

I take a look at these three papers: 1. 2. 3. Collectively titled "The Bayesian Attention Trilogy" along with some other material - in particular an interview with one of the authors "Vishal Misra" - For those familiar with my output on this you can probably skip to about halfway through at 42:40. Prior to this is a lot of background on Induction, Bayesianism, Critical Rationalism and so on that people may have heard from me before in different contexts - although for what it's worth these are new ways of expressing those ideas. At the end I am reacting to a video found here:

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Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work? is an episode from ToKCast by Brett Hall.

This episode is 82:45 long.

This episode was published on Jan 14, 2026.

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