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TeMPOraL on June 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Attention is Turing complete (2021) [pdf]

Does this have explanatory value, or is it the case of "${term} is a ${simple concept} in ${highly specialized framework that's designed specifically so that ${term} is a case of ${simple concept} in it}"?

frakt0x90 on June 14, 2023 [–]

Yeah it's "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" rehashed for the millionth time.

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