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Alosh Denny

Alosh Denny

We Burned 48 GPU Hours Finding Out How Few Bits A Model Needs

One-line summary. I spent a year answering one question, how few bits a language model actually needs, and the infrastructure I answered it on failed in five different ways that had nothing to do with machine learning. This talk is both halves: the research, the day a container spent training on a tenth of its corpus while every dashboard stayed green, and the question underneath both, which is w… more
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  • 29 Sep 2026
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