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by premieroncall 10 days ago
Hmm, so the guy who said more data and compute will outperform any adhoc heuristics has shared a three step adhoc heuristic?
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Can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully and without snark? I'm sure there is one here, but it's hard to make out what it is, and in any case the poison does more harm than the information does good.

I'd link to the HN guidelines here but I'm on my phone!

I assume so as well but there isn't enough information in the comment to make a substantive point about it.
The ad hoc heuristics are the domain knowledge baked into the model by human experts, like features, architecture and loss function.

"Evaluation" means environments or datasets, the model is supposed to discover its representations from scaled up experience. That was the bitter lesson - more data and compute beat heuristics.