What a row of the Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard does when its reading cannot fairly vote. A row abstains if its source flags the reading as unreliable, if the reading is unverified, if it is a J row without its one-line reason or whose reason finds no limb shown, or if its reading sits equally near two thresholds. An abstaining row prints its reading and leaves the count. The Scorecard.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the record uses it
- Scorecard indicator METR 50%-success horizon
- Scorecard indicator Autonomous research outer loop
- Scorecard indicator Largest evidenced operating site
- Scorecard indicator CoWoS
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Abstain.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abstain (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-abstain-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Abstain}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abstain},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}