Posts Tagged ‘scaling’
When Your Digital Life Vanishes | The New Yorker
May 31, 2026https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/when-your-digital-life-vanishes QT:{{” The memorabilia dated back to the eighties. Back then, hard drives stored so little and cost so much that they were generally more valuable than the files they contained; one forty-megabyte drive on display in the lobby originally retailed for twenty thousand dollars. Advances in storage density, and the digitization of everything from filing taxes to laying out magazines, changed this calculus. “It was like two crossing lines,” Jay Hagan, who co-founded DriveSavers, later told me. “The cost of drives was going down, and the value of data was going up.””}}
Limits to economic growth | Nature Physics
December 24, 2024https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01652-6
Murphy, T. W. (2022). Limits to economic growth. Nature Physics, 18(8), 844–847. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01652-6
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
November 16, 2024https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361
Jared Kaplan ∗
Johns Hopkins University, OpenAI
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Sam McCandlish∗
OpenAI
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Tom Henighan
OpenAI
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Tom B. Brown
OpenAI
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Benjamin Chess
OpenAI
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Rewon Child
OpenAI
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Scott Gray
OpenAI
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Alec Radford
OpenAI
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Jeffrey Wu
OpenAI
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Dario Amodei
OpenAI
damodei@openai.com
Supersized AI – ScienceDirect
November 2, 2024https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921018017
Rorvig, M. (2021). Supersized AI. The New Scientist, 251(3355), 36–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(21)01801-7
BioNeMo | Generative AI Platform | NVIDIA
April 21, 2024Where the internet lives | Feb 3rd 2024 | The Economist
March 10, 2024https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2024-02-03
nice discussion on the scaling economics of data centers
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