To calculate +/- 3/6/9 months I shift by seasons. 3rd month of summer becomes 3rd month of winter.
That works well cause all months live in a primitive memory palace in my head: an analogue clock face with July at 12 and January at 6. So shifting by 6 means rotating the clock hand from 11 to 5 and immediately visualising what month it falls on.
This might sound inefficient to an LLM but human brains had image processing before language.
That works well cause all months live in a primitive memory palace in my head: an analogue clock face with July at 12 and January at 6. So shifting by 6 means rotating the clock hand from 11 to 5 and immediately visualising what month it falls on.
This might sound inefficient to an LLM but human brains had image processing before language.