A super long overdue (3+ years?) post on scaling laws. Compute is expensive. Sca
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A super long overdue (3+ years?) post on scaling laws. Compute is expensive. Scaling laws are a way to help us reason about the optimal compute allocation between data and model size before committing to a large run. The post covers what scaling laws predict, how
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A practical explainer on what scaling laws predict and how to use them to allocate compute between data and model size before committing to an expensive training run — useful if you're planning or budgeting large model training.
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