Equation 24 · Part 1 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol U
What this part means
the cost of distributing model updates to the installed fleet, expanded in the next section.
Its job in the formula
U is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
Define U as the cost of distributing model updates to the installed fleet, expanded in the next section.
The passage around this formula
…fraction of the fleet ever triggers, even when each individual inference is nominally free at the margin. The fleet still has to receive the build whether or not most of its members ever use it, and that is exactly what U , the update-distribution term, prices.
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