What Nelson Elhage thinks about neural networks

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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1. 4 Jul 2025

   Our readingUsing a neural network is likely to become easier than designing a custom-tuned prediction algorithm for many tasks.

   Their wordsin 2025 it might end up being easier to just throw a neural net at the problem, instead of a custom-designed-and-tuned prediction algorithm!

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