Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (July 25, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for July 25, 2023 :</p>
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Attention Is Off By One
Summary: Evan Miller proposes a small tweak to the attention formula in AI models, which he believes could resolve the outlier feedback loop that complicates quantization. He suggests using "softmax1" instead of the traditional softmax function, allowing attention heads to "keep quiet" when they have no information to add. This change could make Transformer models easier to compress and deploy, potentially improving their performance.
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Have attention spans been declining?
Summary: A reader under the pseudonym Cennfaeladh investigates whether human attention spans have been declining over the last two decades, possibly due to the introduction of the internet. Reviewing related research, they find that individual attention spans might have indeed been declining. The study explores different methods of measuring attention span and highlights the lack of long-term studies to confirm whether attention spans have actually declined.