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A FLOP is becoming an inconsistent unit of comparison across accelerators. What counts as one operation differs across architectures. Comparing a FLOP across accelerators is comparing different things.
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Farhan Shafiq and Katherine Biewer, “The case for fine-grained tracking of compute for AI,” GreaterWrong, 13 May 2026.
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Disputed GreaterWrong source contains the wording, but presents the post as co-authored by Farhan Shafiq and Katherine Biewer; it cannot be verified as a quote from Farhan Shafiq alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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