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		dgacmu 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'si... I think you're misinterpreting: "with the advent of transformers, (many) people doing NLP with pre-transformers techniques had to salvage their shit"

rootnod3 2 days ago [–]

I guess. That's why I added the "unless I am mis-interpreting", still got downvoted for it because I guess it was against AI. The wording was confusing but so was my understanding of it as a non-native speaker. Shit happens.

dgacmu 1 day ago | [–]

I agree that the wording was a bit confusing (as a native speaker).

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