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lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Back both horses and drop the one that loses the race.

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silencioso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The thing is that there many many horses in this race

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- Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Having two entrants is still better than one.
  
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  - silencioso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not really if you have to divide resources between two. Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.
    
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    Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    MS has more than enough cash and resources to back two horses.
    
    Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.
    
    This also gives them the luxury of trying a different approach.
    
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