| This blog post sucks. It does not make me want to read the papers. Look at this figure: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/image... The speedup labels on the vertical axis are 0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 8... Why is 2 repeated? Did they just have nano-banana make them some charts? Can they not be bothered to use matplotlib or bokeh and directly render a graph? I don't know, maybe there is some legitimate reason that I don't know about for making a single value occur multiple times on a graph axes, but if that is the case, then they probably need to explain it in the figure caption. So it's either a "GenAI special" or it's poor communication about how to read the graph... Look at this video visualization: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/media... Do you have literally any clue what Polar Quantization is? Would this make me think, "I kind of have a high level understanding of that, let me go get the details from the paper." Look at this figure: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/image... The left hand side of the graph, which is normally assumed to start at 0, starts at 48. Those MASSIVE differences you see in the figure? Only a few percent. And that's a deception but only if the figure is even accurate, because we saw earlier they can't even get figure axes correct. |
