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  1. Last 7 days
    1. An FPGA with the weights in memory and a wire looping output back to input could just sit there, executing SUBLEQ programs. Just a transformer being a transformer being a computer.

      大多数人认为计算机需要复杂的CPU架构和操作系统,但作者认为一个简单的FPGA加上循环连接的transformer权重就可以构成一个完整的计算机。这挑战了我们对计算机本质的理解,暗示transformer架构可能比传统CPU更接近计算的本质。

  2. Jan 2021
    1. https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archdaily.com%2F627654%2Fthe-computer-vs-the-hand-in-architectural-drawing-archdaily-readers-respond&group=__world__

      I came across this article about the tension between computer drawing and hand drawing in architecture when I replied to an annotation by another user @onion - very interesting read and I would be curious to see this issue revisited in another ten years...how may opinions have changed?