Equation 3 · Part 2 · Running an Interpretability Investigation That Holds Up
Symbol α
What this part means
α is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
α is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
…the investigation has stopped testing a hypothesis and started constructing one to fit the data. The same failure has a clean statistical description. Sweep enough components at a nominal per-test false-positive rate and report only the one that clears threshold, and the probability that at least one clears by chance alone across k independently tested components is . which climbs toward certainty well before k reaches the size of a typical layer-by-layer or head-by-head sweep. A…
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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.
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