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There is an underlying assumption that each of us aspires to be as productive as possible, and that stripping away everything seen to interfere with productivity is a good thing.
In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Rebecca Solnit
As the spoken languages of Africa elevated tonality to a crucial role, the drum language went a difficult step further. It employed tone and only tone. It was a language of a single pair of phonemes, a language composed entirely of pitch contours.
The Information
James Gleick
Microsoft and Tsinghua U. claim to have found the "Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models": RetNet. They claim better language modelling performance, with 3.4x lower memory consumption, 8.4x higher throughput, 15.6x lower latency. 1/2 https://t.co/2MsA5QpWWC
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