• @HackworthOP
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    -721 days ago

    We follow the classic experimental paradigm reported in Power et al. (2022) for analyzing “grokking”, a poorly understood phenomenon in which validation accuracy dramatically improves long after the train loss saturates. Unlike the previous templates, this one is more amenable to open-ended empirical analysis (e.g. what conditions grokking occurs) rather than just trying to improve performance metrics

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      421 days ago

      Oh okay so they’re just redefining words that are already well-defined so they can make fancy claims.

      • @HackworthOP
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        -221 days ago

        Well-defined for casual use is very different than well-defined for scholarly research. It’s standard practice to take colloquial vocab and more narrowly define it for use within a scientific discipline. Sometimes different disciplines will narrowly define the same word two different ways, which makes interdisciplinary communication pretty funny.

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          320 days ago

          It’s standard practice to take colloquial vocab and more narrowly define it for use within a scientific discipline.

          No. It’s not standard at all, especially when the goal is overtly misleading.

          Sometimes different disciplines will narrowly define the same word two different ways

          Maybe one or both disciplines is promoting bullshit.