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#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks

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The Second Engineering Roll

There's not a lot of prior art on this, because these really giant models, there's not that many places that have worked with them. How do you efficiently go and make all the networking work? How do you get everything to run as efficiently as possible? There's both sort of high level questions about what the what the most efficient way does to organize things is. And you have to think about memory band with and you know how long it'll take to go and and load things between different kinds of memory and the network or stuff like this.

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