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Dust's 243M model beating a 120x smaller one at most population sizes is the surprising part; bigger nets got more population-efficient, not less.
by eriwang915 · Oct 6, 2026
This is one of the reasons I'm extremely unimpressed by complaints from openai and anthropic that other labs are "distilling" their models based on them... Basically: "You're tr…
by walrus01 · Oct 6, 2026
You may not like AI but their business model is a silly twitter-worthy dunk. This is obviously not their business model. I didn't know I could've plagiarized all this code mysel…
by jrflo · Oct 6, 2026
Imagine we did that, split up a model layers as A->B->C. C will need to wait for B to compute a forward pass, which is waiting for A to compute its forward pass. To compute the…
by janalsncm · Oct 6, 2026
This. It's also while you'll sometimes get a mangled Getty Images watermark on some image generations, or a logo in the bottom left corner. If it's a prominent feature in the tr…
by ctippett · Oct 6, 2026
No, because anyone can train a model to do horrific things on their behalf, but it’s not proven you can build a model that will do horrific things on its own behalf, or anything…
by fnordpiglet · Oct 6, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, 'a measure'. Read more on Wikipedia