An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper
They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history. X: @jsmarr , @webbarr , @sandraupson , @hkanji , and @stevenle...
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity
unique digital assets—on the blockchain long before NFT became a household term...Two months later, a Canadian venture firm...used elements of the CryptoPunks smart contract to launch its own line of ...
Profile of Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's third founder, widely considered a genius, who became distant and erratic due to a tragic case of frontotemporal dementia
for a long time, no one could make sense of it. https://www.wired.com/... @richardheartwin : If you read this, you will understand how desperately we need more progress in medicine. https://www.wired....