KaushikR2
Re:>10x More Efficient Pretraining
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:45PM (#49651652)
See footnote 2:
> “Base models” are pretrained models that have not yet undergone reinforcement learning, SFT, or other post-training. They are highly sensitive to prompting, making sampling-based evals unreliable. Instead, we measured bits-per-byte loss on heldout data, which does not suffer from prompt sensitivity and smooths measurement of otherwise emergent abilities. As a side note, we were surprised that Nemotron 3 outperforms DeepSeek V4 Pro across the board but found this to be consistent across domains and inference engines. This might indicate that Nemotron’s weak performance on benchmarks after RL is due to weaker post-training, but the pretrain was ahead of Chinese open-weight competitors.
Ramblings on technological pursuits of AI systems
Re:xAI joins SpaceX
on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:42PM (#46865184)
Perhaps parent was being sarcastic.
Re:DOOMscrolling: The Game
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tptacek spotted
Re:Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF
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That's not always desirable though. I'd rather have control over that
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It's Jekyll with the Hyde theme. Source: https://github.com/mcy/mcy.github.io
Re:Octopuses seen hunting together with fish, punching those that don'...
on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:37PM (#41663708)
And that's why it's important to vote! #BlueWhale2024
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:49AM (#39431049)
I wonder if it would be possible to setup a folder on a remote server, and use that as the directory for local files. Wonder if Spotify would play nice with that.
Re:The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Native Compute
on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:13PM (#39242392)
Optimization has taken a back-seat now, I'd say. We focus more on developer productivity, and that extra mile optimization isn't deemed necessary if that effort and time can be put toward another project, squeezing out more value from the developer.