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The idea of transformers is to do something at least somewhat similar for sequences of tokens that make up a piece of text. But instead of just defining a fixed region in the sequence over which there can be connections, transformers instead introduce the notion of “attention”—and the idea of “paying attention” more to some parts of the sequence than others.

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Notice, too, how much less certain the Webster definition seems about itself, even though it’s more complete — as if to remind you that the word came first, that the word isn’t defined by its definition here, in this humble dictionary, that definitions grasp, tentatively, at words, but that what words really are is this haze and halo of associations and evocations, a little networked cloud of uses and contexts.

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog

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The first of these phones, the Nokia 8110, was the first GSM handset with an ARM core. It would become famous a few years later when it appeared in the movie The Matrix.

A History of ARM, Part 2: Everything Starts to Come Together

arstechnica.com

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