While proofreading the "How LLMs Break Down Language from Text to Tokens" section from my last blog, Nolan asked me a thought-provoking question: "Then what would the cost of ideas for ideographic languages be?" His question highlighted the significant differences between two writing systems: ideographic languages, where characters represent ideas, and orthographic languages, where characters represent sounds.
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The Cost of Ideas
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While proofreading the "How LLMs Break Down Language from Text to Tokens" section from my last blog, Nolan asked me a thought-provoking question: "Then what would the cost of ideas for ideographic languages be?" His question highlighted the significant differences between two writing systems: ideographic languages, where characters represent ideas, and orthographic languages, where characters represent sounds.