Please don't use terms like "magic" when trying to explain things to people. They never point out where the "magic" part lines up to any of their other explanation.
Author here. Thank you. I feel an important element of this type of writing is what complexity to show and what to hide at different points. "Magic" is just to say "don't worry about the contents of this box yet, we'll get to it". It's what we discuss right after the visual. Sorry that came out as confusing. I'll add a note to the following figure saying that's the magic.
I get the sense that you're trying to mask the simplicity of predicting the next-most-likely-word after training your app, ala markov chains, under the guise of "magical AI." Providing an error threshold when it spits out the wrong response to a phrase seems to be worsening its natural ability as well.
That's how it's often taught, which is a real shame. Paul Lockhart wrote an elegant piece about this, titled A Mathematician's Lament [0]:
> Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depend heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.
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> This is why it is so heartbreaking to see what is being done to mathematics in school. This rich and fascinating adventure of the imagination has been reduced to a sterile set of “facts” to be memorized and procedures to be followed. In place of a simple and natural question about shapes, and a creative and rewarding process of invention and discovery, students are treated to this: Triangle Area Formula - A = 1/2 b h
> “The area of a triangle is equal to one-half its base times its height.” Students are asked to memorize this formula and then “apply” it over and over in the “exercises.” Gone is the thrill, the joy, even the pain and frustration of the creative act. There is not even a problem anymore. The question has been asked and answered at the same time — there is nothing left for the student to do.
