ML Researcher: Compute Shortage, Not Ideas, Slowing Down Progress
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-08-20
A machine learning researcher argues that ML research would have accelerated much faster in recent years were it not for the shortage of compute. The post emphasizes that the bottleneck is not a lack of ideas, but the limited amount of available compute, describing the situation as frustrating.
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