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Scaling laws are "just" regressions. But a biased fitting method can quietly misallocate millions of $ of compute at frontier scales. My coworker Eric Czech dug into a bias in parabolic IsoFLOP fits used by Meta, DeepSeek, Microsoft, Waymo, et al. for their scaling laws🧵 https://t.co/JlQO3tEECc

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