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snake_doc | 5 months ago

Hmmm… http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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ACCount37|5 months ago

Doesn't apply as long as the improvements obtained there scale with compute.

Now, are there actual meaningful improvements to obtain, and do they stick around all the way to frontier runs? Unclear, really. So far, it looks like opening a can of hyperparameters.

whimsicalism|5 months ago

this is a bad example to claim the bitter lesson applies to, it’s about the fundamentals of optimization techniques not about tying to hand-crafted things for the solution space.

snake_doc|5 months ago

Aren’t they all optimization techniques at the end of the day? Now you’re just debating semantics