The person that wrote the article is one of the most significant figures behind the efficiency work you're claiming he doesn't understand. There is indeed sloppy thinking here, but you need to look closer to home to see it.
@jeremyphoward
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ResNet34 Achieves 94% Accuracy on IIIT Pets Dataset
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BTW resnet34 gets 94% accuracy on IIIT Pets after 90s fine-tuning on an old 2080 gaming GPU.
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John Tukey: The Unsung Godfather of Data Science
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Why isn't Tukey more well-known? He's the godfather of data science. Coined the terms "bit", "software", and "exploratory data analysis". Made FFTs usable. And much more… https://
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Decades of Experience with Machine Learning Models Complexity
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I know what you meant. But despite spending some decades doing that, I never got to the point that I found them lightweight, easy to understand, train, and infer. 🙂
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SoTA Model Benchmarks Reveal Evaluation Methodology Flaws
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The evals that folks care about and publish at any time are those that SoTA models are just shy of being good at. So this is what such pics *always* look like.
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Lightweight Discriminative Models: Overlooked ML Approach
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Somehow I entirely missed the discriminative models that are lightweight, easy to understand, train, and infer.
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Gradual Tech Improvement Expected Until Field Maturity
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Ongoing gradual minor improvement in product capabilities is what you'd expect in pretty much any tech field at pretty much any time, until that field is extremely mature and stable.
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AI Analyzes Writing Style Differences Between Book Chapters
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For instance, studying why the writing in one chapter feels different/off to another one. The answer gave detailed notes on how the style had changed, with examples.
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Anthropic Opus 4.5 excels at literary analysis for writers
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The new @AnthropicAI Opus 4.5 model is absolutely stunningly good at literary analysis. I'm helping a friend with their book and there's times I feel like something is a little off in the writing, and when I ask Opus about it, it always diagnoses it beautifully, with examples.
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Anthropic’s Wikipedia Usage Questioned in Recent Post
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That doesn't seem to be true? – I'm seeing Anthropic use wikipedia today.