“…hard to justify me taking up hundreds of GPUs for a substantial amount of time … unless they’re in line with the company's goals or there’s downtime and underutilized GPUs.”

Eric Bigelow, Goodfire · "The Cognitive Revolution" · How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

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Allocate GPU time to experiments only when they align with company goals or when there is idle compute, to avoid using hundreds of GPUs for long runs that aren't justified

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