Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
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HN comment orderThis post is a classic! Also recommended: Horace also gave a related talk (covering the high-level picture of modern ML Systems) at Jane Street in Dec 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=139UPjoq7Kw
I can't get past that fist meme. "Pure connectionist models" are scaled up "without inductive biases"? Did I wake up in an alternate universe again?
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- Total points
- 368
- Total comments
- 86
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-15 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | chillee | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-03-16 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | hiena03 | 55 | 1 |
| 2022-03-16 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | visionscaper | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-08-16 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | jpdus | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-09-02 | Making deep learning go brrrr from first principlesFirst breakout | jpdus | 102 | 18 |
| 2025-03-24 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | Anon84 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-05-16 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-05-23 | Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First PrinciplesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 199 | 67 |