Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them

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Power over fiber chaos.social \| points: 325 \| comments: 227

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Iggy.rs – building message streaming in Rust blog.iggy.rs \| points: 219 \| comments: 47

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AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea globalfishingwatch.org \| points: 218 \| comments: 149

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AMD’s 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates gitlab.freedesktop.org \| points: 212 \| comments: 79

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The Curious Case of MD5 katelynsills.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 147

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"Anna’s Archive" Shadow Library Blocked Following Publishers’ Complaint torrentfreak.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 100

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A Science of Concurrent Programs [pdf] lamport.azurewebsites.net \| points: 169 \| comments: 32

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Project Oberon: Design of an operating system, a compiler, and a computer [pdf] people.inf.ethz.ch \| points: 167 \| comments: 20

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