Researchers Push Back on "Bitter Lesson": More Compute Makes Algorithm Choice Matter More

Researchers argue that misreading the "Bitter Lesson" and over-remembering the transformer scaling era have misled a generation of scientists, and that as compute grows, algorithm choices and careful data design—especially in biology—become more, not less, critical.

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