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The speaker says that for tasks of interest in pre-training, useful signal is already present in Common Core, and the challenge is filtering noise rather than obtaining signal.
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“like the signal doesn't you know in pre-training the signal is like already in common core right like for the tasks that you care about in pre-training the problem is there's not just like getting signal at all it's like filtering out all the noise that exists”Play from 1:05:29Report a misattribution
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