Machine-Learning
The hand-crafted transformer that beats frontier models at arithmetic — no training required
The experiment that broke my brain
There’s a paper that’s been circulating on r/MachineLearning this week — 206 upvotes, not the biggest number, but the kind of upvotes that matter. The kind where every comment is from someone who clearly read the whole thing, stayed up late thinking …
Bad Apple in a 3MB neural network, and the NeurIPS reproducibility crisis
The 3MB neural network that plays Bad Apple
Two things happened in the ML world this week that seem unrelated but aren’t.
First: someone on r/MachineLearning posted a project where they compressed the entire Bad Apple!! music video — all 1,745 frames of shadow-art silhouettes — into a …