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This is actually a well-known phenomenon in ML, called "The Bitter Lesson". > One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of gen
by jlamberts 2mo ago
This is actually a well-known phenomenon in ML, called "The Bitter Lesson".
> One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even as the available computation becomes very great. The two methods that seem to scale arbitrarily in this way are search and learning.
The full essay is worth a read, it's pretty short http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
- verdverm 2mo ago[flagged]
- IsTom 2mo agoYou could read it through internet archive if it's this important.
- verdverm 2mo agohttps://archive.ph/DQU4a https://archive.ph/DQU4a
- pachev 2mo agoNot quite. The Wikipedia page is worth a look through if you don’t want to click on an http page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson
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- zparky 2mo agothe page is nearly just a .txt file.
- verdverm 2mo agothe reason for https is MITM injection, regardless of original content
- zparky 2mo agoah, didn't know that. thanks!
- verdverm 2mo agoIf you'd like to dig more into the history, let's encrypt did so much to enable the movement to https by making certs free, and chrome with the red text and warnings in the url bar, which has since graduated to a full on page that requires clicking to still go despite the warnings
- cubefox 2mo agoSo what? Are you worried someone replaces the txt with a different txt?
- verdverm 2mo agowhat if they add js?
- gct 2mo agoWhat if the original page is untrustworthy and adds JS?
- ilikehurdles 2mo agothen probably don't give this blog post your personal financial information just to be safe.
- entrepy123 2mo agoTake your pick: https://web.archive.org/web/20190401161916/http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190401161916/http://www.incomp... or https://web.archive.org/web/20260727174324/http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260727174324/http://www.incomp...
- realitylabs 2mo agoOut of curiousity, I like security just as much as the next guy and ensure that certs are valid, ciphers are fresh, and protocols are mature, but I am also not really concerned with an informational site that runs http being browsed. Would you mind sharing what your concern would be with browsing this content over http?
- verdverm 2mo agoMITM injection by your ISP or government
- whimsicalism 2mo agoextremely HN comment
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- boilerupnc 2mo agoHere's an archive version[0] of that page under SSL [0]: https://archive.is/DQU4a https://archive.is/DQU4a
- BinaryRage 2mo agoWelch Labs series on this is great too: https://youtu.be/2hcsmtkSzIw https://youtu.be/2hcsmtkSzIw