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The speaker says scaling laws took a long time to discover partly because failing to account for all relevant factors obscures the clean relationship.
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“I think part of the reason it took people so long to figure out the scaling laws in the first place was that if you don't get all these things right,”
“then you don't get such a clean relationship.”Play from 1:17:20Report a misattribution
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