Everything Is a 'New Algorithm' Now: FP4 Tricks to Prompting on the List
willcb · x · 2026-11-14
Researcher willcb mocks naming inflation in ML: score centering is a "new algorithm," the FP4 scaling trick is one too, and so are an RL environment for regional tax law, pretraining on last generation's vibecoded repos, and prompting models to write better docs. The trend, he jokes, is growing exponentially. In a follow-up he adds that score centering is indeed beautiful — after 30 years, policy gradient is finally "solved," and now it's time to find algorithms for the rest of the damn owl.
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