News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by ants_everywhere on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:33PM (#41734680)
> 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...

Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by TaurenHunter on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:40PM (#41734751)
Reminds me of the "Considered Harmful" articles:

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

Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by jprete on Thursday October 03, 2024 @04:55PM (#41734890)
I wonder if there's something about tech culture - or tech people - that encourages them to really, really like snowclones.
Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by observationist on Thursday October 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#41734978)
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.

Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by fennecfoxy on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:46AM (#41741983)
Not sure why people are surprised about this when it's the modus operandi of all life on the planet.

I could spam we are the stochastic parrots after all, yet one more time.

Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by bee_rider on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:23PM (#41736521)
Quick, somebody write “All you need Considered Harmful” and “Considered Harmful all you need.”

Which seems closer to true?

Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by cozzyd on Thursday October 03, 2024 @09:46PM (#41737014)
All you need is all you need.
Re:Were RNNs All We Needed? by tsimionescu on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:22AM (#41740248)
Starting of course with the classic paper from Lennon and McCartney, 1967.