Ex-OpenAI Researcher Finds Fatal Bug in Original Scaling Laws Paper

Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida revealed that the 2020 Scaling Laws paper contained a fundamental bug involving fixed tokens and cosine decay. This flaw likely caused the industry to waste massive compute on over-sized, under-trained models.

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