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Ditch Recurrence for Speed: Attention-Only Transformers

A take on a Google paper advocating transformer-only models: no recurrence, full parallelism, scalable encoders-decoders, and faster, simpler AI pipelines.

Community Sentiment Analysis

Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement

Sentiment Distribution

65% Engaged
19% Positive
46% Negative
Positive
19%
Negative
46%
Neutral
35%

Critical Perspectives

Community concerns and opposing viewpoints

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Repliers keep noting it’s from 2017, calling the post clickbait and a reheated “new” claim

Repliers keep noting it’s from 2017, calling the post clickbait and a reheated “new” claim.

2

Many read it as an algorithm/engagement test and a way to surface bot accounts, citing deliberate rage-bait

Many read it as an algorithm/engagement test and a way to surface bot accounts, citing deliberate rage-bait.

3

The thread leans into jokes, memes, and sarcasm, with plenty of digs at the LinkedIn-style writing and a few “delete this” reactions

The thread leans into jokes, memes, and sarcasm, with plenty of digs at the LinkedIn-style writing and a few “delete this” reactions.

4

A side debate erupts on Transformers vs

RNN/LSTM (with nods to linear transformers, edge use cases, and “images need CNNs”), plus tongue-in-cheek hot takes like “LSTMs FTW. ”

5

Several admit confusion—“what’s the joke/context

”—and link proofs that it’s not new.

6

Meta-parodies compare it to “discovering” Turing, Markov chains, or Galileo to mock the framing

Meta-parodies compare it to “discovering” Turing, Markov chains, or Galileo to mock the framing.

7

Engagement watchers call out quote-tweet farming, “aura farming,” and note this is “internet trolling at its finest

8

A few speculative asides pop up—AGI predictions, “beat the Turing test,” and “Does this kill REST APIs

”—mostly played for laughs.

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@N8Programs

what model ghostwrote this? or did you painstakingly mimic the horrifying n-grams of the original yourself.

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@vsaha_twt

I hate the linkedin style of writing.

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@MustafaBoorenie

internet trolling at its finest

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Supporting Voices

Community members who agree with this perspective

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Explosive enthusiasm

Replies call the work “revolutionary,” “mind‑blowing,” and a “game changer”, with some claiming it could change AI forever or even brush up against AGI.

2

Attention-centric insight

Many underline that “Attention Is All You Need” became the field’s backbone, praising simplicity unlocking scale and the shift from sequential bottlenecks to globally aware computation.

3

What’s next

Thoughtful questions ask whether progress comes from refining attention or entirely new paradigms, with practical nods to positional encodings and architecture tuning.

4

Product impact

People anticipate faster training, richer models, cleaner design—and speculate about ChatGPT integration and claims like “language is about to be solved.”

5

Social proof for the author

High-energy support—buying the newsletter, posting to LinkedIn, 10/10, “banger”—with praise that the breakdown is on to something big.

6

Links, humor, and edge notes

Calls to read the paper (and more links), sprinkled with memes and playful lines (“refactor my life into a Transformer stack,” “taoism operator”), plus rare sarcasm that doesn’t dent the surging excitement.

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@bendee983

Wait till you read this paper

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@mpopv

Wow! You're certainly on to something here. This isn't just intriguing—it's potentially revolutionary.

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@Yuchenj_UW

you are absolutely right!

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