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The environmentalist in me loves the fact that LLM progress has mostly been focused on doing more with the same hardware, rather than horizontal scaling. I gues
by turnsout 1y ago
The environmentalist in me loves the fact that LLM progress has mostly been focused on doing more with the same hardware, rather than horizontal scaling. I guess given GPU shortages that makes sense, but it really does feel like the value of my hardware (a laptop in my case) is going up over time, not down.
Also, just wanted to credit you for being one of the five people on Earth who knows the correct spelling of "lede."
- twixfel 1y ago> Also, just wanted to credit you for being one of the five people on Earth who knows the correct spelling of "lede." Not in the UK it isn’t.
- turnsout 1y agoYes, it is, although it's primarily a US journalistic convention. "Lede" is a publishing industry word referring to the most important leading detail of a story. It's spelled intentionally "incorrectly" to disambiguate it from the metal lead, which was used in typesetting at the time.
- twixfel 1y agoNo, it isn't. It's an American thing at most and possibly also a false etymology. Its prime usage appears to be for people in HN threads to pat each other on the back for knowing it's "real" spelling.