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Comment by ants_everywhere

1 year ago

> is proof that architectures aren't fundamentally important in the curve-fitting paradigm (aka deep learning)

(Somewhat) fun and (somewhat) related fact: there's a whole cottage industry of "is all you need" papers https://arxiv.org/search/?query=%22is+all+you+need%22&search...

Reminds me of the "Considered Harmful" articles:

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

  • I wonder if there's something about tech culture - or tech people - that encourages them to really, really like snowclones.

    • Yes. Do stuff that other people have been successful doing. Monkey see, monkey do - it's not a tech people thing, it's a human thing.

      Tech just happens to be most on display at the moment - because tech people are building the tools and the parameters and the infrastructure handling all our interactions.

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