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I think this is incredible advice.

I have and continue to take approach IV and VIII[0], and its worked very well for me. Especially now that my research is investigating LLMs[1], scaling down and using architectures that focus on performance is paying dividends.

Working in a niche applications (molecular biology) is also a great way to remain sane (although it comes with its own problems).

[0] "Scale down" and "Small models"

[1] Well, "large" is a relative term here.




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