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Thank you for that link, Ive been subconsciously holding off on assuming there was a compute / predictive power correlation even though it seems natural. But it would probably be dangerously naïve to have assumed that connection. Anyway good for us! Go humans! (computers)

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Glad you found it useful.

A small caveat, though: The correlation is linear with the logarithm of compute. So here's hoping Moore's law & friends live on a tad longer!

And a somewhat unrelated fun fact: The authors surprisingly found the lowest correlation between compute and the performance in the domain of Go (and not the real world). Although the data is very sparse, I suspect that it's due to algorithmic advances.

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