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April 2021 News

April 2021 Gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, particularly new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.

April 2021’s ⁠Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, ⁠March 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my ⁠Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.

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    Another thought, looking at ⁠‘Employer Costs for Employee Compensation’ (PDF):

    1. “Moore’s Law”: the cost of a transistor halves every ~19 months;

    2. “Anti-Moore’s Law”: the cost of a synapse doubles every ~119 years.