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The Missing Ruler

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

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A counting model has no notion that an unseen sentence is plausible because its words resemble seen ones — no similarity ruler exists between words.

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"The cat slept," never counted, scores zero — though cats resemble dogs and slept resembles sat in every text ever written.

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The ruler problem returns from Unit 8 — and this time the ruler must be manufactured, not chosen.