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		jackblemming on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consu... Most of the entire field of machine learning is “try shit and see what works”. So it seems like they’re par for the course.

v3ss0n on April 25, 2024 [–]

Same as software engineering field too.

littlestymaar on April 25, 2024 | | [–]

It's even worse for AI given that nobody really understands why anything works.

sinuhe69 on April 25, 2024 | | [–]

I wonder what we don’t understand from the SE POV?

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