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by dragonwriter 1178 days ago
> a massive search operation, akin to finding the right temperature to bake a cake from all possible floats

...for each of 13 billion (for a model with that many parameters) different cakes, except that they aren’t like cakes because the “best" temperature for each depends on the actual temperatures chosen for the others.

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It's 2^(16*13,000,000,000) different cakes.
Way better than paperclips.