The Transformer model is one of the most important contributions to modern AI. It powers Bard and is the "T" in ChatGPT. The 2017 Google paper, “Attention Is All You Need” is well written, but doesn't really explain how it works. So, here’s my "Transformers in a Nutshell”...

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My thought for Today : No one has a monopoly of virtue, vice, or victimhood, Noone’s rights, or claims thereof, automatically supersede those of others. Stop thinking in cliches

I can’t believe Fortinet is still in business.

alternatively, if "no tax rises" is an unadvertised part of the fiscal framework, why not talk about that too? public sector needs and GDP are unpredictable, why are we treating the factor which is completely under control of the chancellor as if it were the only fixed point?

Just peer-reviewed a forensic analysis in a case. The suspect mailed a package with a hidden Apple AirTag in it to a victim's old home address. The package was forwarded to her new (and formerly safe) address.... Might be good to warn DV victims of unexpected mail.

The map is all red That makes us feel blue The records are falling As we keep adding CO₂

Today, we’re at Westminster Abbey for a very special service to mark our official 200th anniversary 💙 You’re invited to watch the Westminster Thanksgiving Service from 11.30am on a livestream provided by Westminster Abbey - rnli.social/3Ildhii

John Cassidy Martin Wolf Maybe the green bit never really existed, puffed up statistics from over extended banks?

“So then I said, we mustn’t exploit our close relationship with the Prime Minister - we must be above reproach at all times” “What did I say Roy?” “She said nip down Ladbrokes and put a tenner on 4 July”

Woman of the Day Barbara Betts born OTD 1910 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, one of the longest serving Members of Parliament and the first woman in the UK to be appointed First Secretary of State. Barbara was the Labour MP for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979. From 1965 until 1968, she

I am loving the way everyone thinks drafting tax law to make it better targeted is easy. Sit down and try writing the definitions and then work out how you would get round them. 🤔Tax is a blunt tool for policy. There are often better ones.

The biggest failures of most leaders of the left (and I am politically leftwing) are a fatal inability to listen to critics, and be open to recognise and learn from its own errors of judgement

This sketch makes my laugh like a drain but because of a characteristic as opposed to a punchline. That's what makes it so clever, I suppose. We quote it ad nauseum in our house. All together now: What, forty, forty five years??

There is no Woman of the Day post today but a contender might be printer, publisher and bookseller Mary Cooper of Paternoster Row, London (year of birth unknown) who in March 1744 published the first known book of English nursery rhymes in print including some that were slyly

When Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar, 'Old Lady Day' was kept on April 6 (that's why it's the start of the tax year). There's a joke about this in LOTR: after Aragorn's calendar reform the Hobbits celebrate that day, but they can't remember why... youtube.com/watch?v=EDqeq_…

The University of Edinburgh has been announced as the home of the UK's next national supercomputer. This endorses the University and its future as a world-leader in supercomputing and AI, recognising the strength and value of our expertise. edin.ac/4ehIPVD

Was thinking of this earlier. Still incredibly powerful. theguardian.com/sport/2013/jan…