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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 ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1oHx68WYAEkerd.jpg) ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1oHx69X0AAWPt6.png) ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1oHx7EXgAAwm9E.png) ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1oHx6-X0AAZdKD.png)

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@MoritzLaurer on Twitter

Programmers are not given sufficient time, clear enough direction, or adequate designs to enable them to succeed.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

Houllebecq’s Atmomised. No wonder Žižek likes this one. Is there a better savaging of desolate hippie hedonism and its pathetic legacy in New Age zen bullshit?

K-Punk

Mark Fisher

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