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If attention is an engine, the Transformer is the whole car built around it. Introduced in the 2017 paper whose title says it all,...
January 2026 AlgorithmicHow many distinct visitors did your website get today ? The obvious way is to keep a set of every visitor ID you have...
March 2025 Machine LearningRead this sentence : “The cat sat on the mat because it was tired.” Who was tired ? You knew instantly it was the...
July 2024 Machine LearningIf neural networks rule images, audio and text, there is another model that quietly wins almost everything else, the spreadsheets, the tables, the columns...
September 2023 AlgorithmicSuppose you are building a web crawler and, for every URL you meet, you must answer one question : “have I seen this before...
January 2023 Machine LearningEveryone is told that neural networks learn by “backpropagation”, and everyone is then shown a wall of matrix equations bristling with transposes and tiny...
April 2022 MathematicsAt the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians, David Hilbert presented a list of 23 problems that would shape the century to come. His thirteenth...
June 2021 Machine LearningImagine you are lost on a foggy mountain and want to reach the valley. You cannot see far, but you can feel the slope...
September 2020 MathematicsWhy do neural networks work at all ? Before worrying about how to train a network, it is worth asking whether a network is...
January 2020 MathematicsShine white light through a prism and it fans out into a rainbow : the prism reveals that “white” was secretly a mixture of...
May 2019 PythonCertain problems can be solved quite easily using recursion. It is the process in which a function calls itself directly or indirectly by defining...
November 2018 MathematicsOne of the most well known problems in graph theory is the four color theorem for map coloring. A simple example to understand that...
October 2018