Bayesian intuition may reappear at scale as compute keeps growing
gleech · x · 2026-07-29
A reply arguing that Bayesian intuition shows up surprisingly often at scale in AI, especially around fine-tunability.
- The author says this pattern is not widely recognized yet.
- With pretraining data fixed but compute still growing, they expect some more Bayesian-like ideas to reappear.
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