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Educating Silicon

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Educating Silicon is a personal blog at educatingsilicon.com about hardware and ai. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a paper on Google's OCR system compared against commercial benchmarks. The only comment cites it as a source on OCR accuracy for text in photographs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-10
  2. Revised Chinchilla scaling laws – LLM compute and token requirements
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Paper from a few years ago comparing Google's OCR system to commercially available benchmarks: http://www.educatingsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p... A lot better for text in photographs. Comparison might be different on dense document text though.

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2013/10/photoocr_iccv_paper.pdf

    on “Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta”
  2. Submitted How much LLM training data is there from all sources in Trillions of Tokens? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Educating Silicon as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Revised Chinchilla scaling laws – LLM compute and token requirements as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How much LLM training data is there, in the limit? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How much LLM training data is there, in the limit? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Revised Chinchilla scaling implies higher compute requirements for small models as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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