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The speaker says that training a model on coding does not reduce its physics performance and can produce small gains in physics.
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“It's not that they get like worse at physics because they've also been trained on a bunch of coding.”
“In fact, it's the opposite. The coding has some small gains for the physics,”Play from 40:56Report a misattribution
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