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NYU's Greg Durrett links sudden spikes in Google searches for 'noise floor' to LLM vocabulary preferences

Search interest for 'smoke test' surged similarly in 2026.

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I never heard anyone talk about the "noise floor" in an ML context until last year. Similar spike.

Max Spero@max_spero_

My anecdotal evidence that LLMs love the term smoke test seems confirmed by search trends — searches for the term spike in 2026

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Max Spero@max_spero_

My anecdotal evidence that LLMs love the term smoke test seems confirmed by search trends — searches for the term spike in 2026

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