perplexity
nounEtymology
From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.
- derived from perplexitās
- derived from perplexité
- inherited from perplexite
Definitions
The state or quality of being perplexed.
Something that perplexes.
- The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
A measure of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at perplexity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at perplexity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at perplexity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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