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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Problem of Early Optimization in AI Research
Most of the development in the last many decades in AI research came from just leveraging computation and just the simple algorithms waiting for the computation to improve. Well software guys have a thing that they call it the problem of early optimization right. So you write a big software stack and if you start optimizing like the first thing you're right the odds of that being the performance limiters low. But when you get the whole thing working can you make it to faster by optimizing the right things? Sure. While you're optimizing that could you've written a new software stack which would have been a better choice maybe. Now you have creative tension. The whole time as you're doing the writing the that's the
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