{"podcast":{"title":"ToKCast","slug":"tokcast-76992","podcast_index_feed_id":76992,"rss_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3210771/TOKCAST_e8uwkp.png","author":"Brett Hall","episode_count":263,"summary":"This is a podcast primarily about the work of philosopher and physicist David Deutsch and related matters (such as Popperian epistemology). I read from and comment upon the books ”The Beginning of Infinity” & ”The Fabric of Reality” (both by Deutsch), ”The Science of Can & Can’t” (by Deutsch’s collegue Marletto) and ”Rationality” by Pinker (so far). In addition I make stand alone episodes about topics like resources, environmentalism, economics, science, philosophy, epistemology (especially explanations) and reason broadly.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T14:17:01.933436+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 255: Does this research explain how LLMs work?","slug":"ep-255-does-this-research-explain-how-llms-work","published_at":"2026-01-14T13:15:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-255-does-this-research-explain-how-llms-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992","url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/e/ep-255-does-this-research-explain-how-llms-work/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3n4she9c8sddudw6/Do_these_papers_podcastbpkok.mp3","summary":"I take a look at these three papers: 1. https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.22471 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23752 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22473 Collectively titled \"The Bayesian Attention Trilogy\" along with some other material - in particular an interview with one of the authors \"Vishal Misra\" - https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/directory/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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRuY0ozEm3Q","meta_description":"I take a look at these three papers: 1. https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.22471 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23752 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22473 Colle…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4965,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tokcast-76992/episodes/ep-255-does-this-research-explain-how-llms-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-255-does-this-research-explain-how-llms-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}