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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 1 year ago

Edit: numbers are off by 1000 as I used calories instead of kilocalories to calculate brain energy expense.

Corrected:

human brains are 1.44x more efficient during training and 0.128x (or 8x less efficient) during inference.

Oops lol