75% of What a Neural Network Learns is noise. So is 75% of What You Learned in School.

Quantization asks how much of a neural network you can throw away before it breaks. Education asks the same question about the human mind. Source : Image by the author I was talking about TurboQuant to a tech colleague at an AI company last week. Quantization, model compression, how you squeeze a 70-billion-parameter model into something that runs on hardware a fraction of the size. Standard conversation for people who build them. A sales colleague overheard us and walked over. “Why does that matter? Isn’t data just data? It’s not like there’s a storage problem.” She was not being dismissive. She was genuinely asking. And the question stopped me, because she was right about something she did not realize she was right about. Data is just data. That part she nailed. The part she missed is th