Usually the rate of overall improvement for this type of optimization is less than Moore law rate of improvement, thus not worth the company investment. 17x micro-benchmarks don't count. Real improvements come from architectural changes, for example: MoE, speculative multi-token prediction, etc.
Americans cannot conceive of political thought outside of democrat vs republican, which is the political equivalent of comparing 2 brands of peanut butter from the same production line, so this is completely on brand.
Gore Vidal described them as two electoral wings of the same party. They even enact a number of the same policies and ignore certain issues. Their debate are more about personality than anything else.
You misunderstood me. It's not about local politics. In most of the world, the thought that democrat_weight=50 republican_weight=50 is considered an unbiased system is frankly ludicrous. Or any point on that line for that matter, from (0,100) to (100,0)
