Speculator
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Training speculative decoding models requires hidden states from the base model
“Now, with speculators today, you need to train the speculator using the base model itself, because you're getting hidden states out of the model from running inference on these specific prompts, and that is the training data you use to create the speculator.”
Benet: Crypto speculators receive far greater rewards than builders
“I'm kind of bothered by the fact that in crypto, right now, you're seeing the normal issues with capital flood in, which is that if you're a speculator that has a lot of capital, you can afford to get much greater rewards than the people that actually build th…”