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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by pwndByDeath on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:29AM (#46668046)
No, its a new form of alchemy that turns electricity into hype. The technical jargon is more.of.a thieves cant to help identity other conmen to one another
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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by postflopclarity on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:28AM (#46668564)
that's a strange way to spell "no, I didn't understand the paper"
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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by vixen99 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:26PM (#46671241)
Perhaps someone who does understand the paper will kindly make it a bit clearer for those of who get a bit lost.
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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by Yemoshino on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:49AM (#46681194)
Honestly why I would really apprechiate something like this, hn is not an explain platform.

For sure, some words or feedback on what you understood (did you get it right) etc. yeah.

But otherwise, if you do not understand a research paper, you have to do the same hard work as everyone else. Sitting down, going through it paragraph by paragraph and learning it. This takes massive time.

and for a high level overview, chatgpt and co are really really good getting papers.

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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by Yemoshino on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:34AM (#46668618)
Try get over your ai hate.

If you need help getting more out of ai, you can use chatgpt and co to go through papers and let yourself eli5 paragarphs. 1blue3brown also has a few great videos about transformer and how they work

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Re:Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transfo... by Workaccount2 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:53AM (#46669449)
Ideologues usually aren't great at primary source understanding/reasoning, hence why they end up with such strong opinions.
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