Part 2 of 8

Intuition

The core idea that makes diffusion work for text is almost embarrassingly simple once you see it: for discrete tokens, the analogue of noise is masking.

1. Noising text = hiding it
2. The catch: parallel commits are independent commits
3. Bidirectional sight
4. The editor: fixing your own mistakes
5. Head-to-head
6. Quiz: 5 questions