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Re:Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award by perks_12 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:54AM (#43265850)
The Bitter Lesson seems to be generally accepted knowledge in the field. Wouldn't that make DeepSeek R1 even more of a breakthrough?
Re:Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto Win 2024 Turing Award by currymj on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:31AM (#43266899)
that was “bitter lesson” in action.

for example there are clever ways of rewarding all the steps of a reasoning process to train a network to “think”. but deepseek found these don’t work as well as much simpler yes/no feedback on examples of reasoning.