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The speaker says that achieving the described wall-clock-time improvement typically requires new ideas rather than scaling existing ideas, because the challenge is efficiency.

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“really different is the is the wall clock time going from 60 hours to to you know under 45 that's that's an order of magnitude change and it is not that typically that is not achieved by scaling up existing ideas you have to just do new ideas because this is a it's an efficiency issue”
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