The (true) story of development and inspiration behind the "attention" operator, the one in "Attention is All you Need" that introduced the Transformer. From personal email correspondence with the author 🇺🇦 Dzmitry Bahdanau @ NeurIPS ~2 years ago, published here and now (with permission) following

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if you’re a guy in your early 20s, buy a Seawolf-class submarine go into debt if you have to this is not satire. you can get a USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) for around $3 billion having a cutting-edge nuclear-powered submarine communicates status to women, world governments and

AI won’t replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else.

"LinkedIn is OnlyFans for middle managers"

Do crackheads ever say, “I’m too broke to smoke crack tonight”? No. They get up and make it happen. Lesson in there.

People a century from now will not believe that humans figured this shit out with nothing but their brains. Just rawdogging thought.

I just saw two e/acc missionaries on the street.

Dudes will see this and say hell yeah

🐲We are not close to AGI 🦖It doesn't matter 🐉Current white collar work is solved 🐸It is just a time function to roll it out everywhere.

Finally a decent reboot

⚡️ Had a great time today at /function1 Dubai ⚡️ Loved moderating our session on how AI is helping finance from fighting fraud to building long-term wealth! Big thanks to the function1 team for hosting such a strong event! And to my fellow panelists: 🎙️ Felix,

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I