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		danielmarkbruce 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves c... Saying ML is a field where deterministic code would work just fine conveniently leaves out the difficult part - writing the actual code.... Which we haven't been able to do for most of the tasks at hand. What you are saying is fantasy nonsense.

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astrange 1 day ago [–]

They did not leave it out.

> but the amount of cases it would need to cover is too large to be practical (note, this has nothing to do with the impossibility of its design)

danielmarkbruce 11 hours ago | [–]

It's not only too large - we can't even enumerate all the edge cases, let alone handle them. It's too difficult.

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