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Marafounder
Our 3-step plan for the autumn reading session:
How Our Weekly Reading Circle Works
1
STEP 1
Read the weekly 15-page packet before Thursday
Download the PDF above or read online.
2
STEP 2
Post one favorite quote or question in the room
Highlight any sentence to quote-reply directly.
3
STEP 3
Gather Thursday at 7:30 PM for conversation
Unplugged 90-minute table discussion.
Wren
Passage we discussed at the end of last week’s session:
Proverbs 27:17· WEB
17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
Idrisadmin
Which book should we read next month after we finish the current packet?
Poll · pick any that work
Marafounder
Sign-up sheet for Thursday night’s seminar snacks & drinks:
Sign-up · click a slot to claim
Marafounder
Okay — this is exactly the vibe.
Idrisadmin

Field notes

A few things worth keeping from this week, mostly unedited.

  • The light in the front room, four o'clock.

  • That thing Wren said about the tide.

  • The paper everyone should actually read: Attention Is All You Need

Small pages, kept small — that's the whole idea.

not everything needs a caption
some of it just needs to be kept
A paper
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, et al.
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the…
arXiv
Coen
Where we’re meeting this Thursday evening — table in the back garden:
Tartine Bakery & Garden Table
600 Guerrero St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Marafounder
For posterity.
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)
Idrisadmin
Reading group pick for next week?
A paper
Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, et al.
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the…
arXiv
Coen
From the weekend.

Weekend Retreat & Reading Table

Morning mist over the valley

Morning mist over the valley

Wren
The corner table, late afternoon.
Our reading table for the autumn session

Our reading table for the autumn session

Sable
This light though.
Juno
Reminder, background reading if anyone's curious: https://en.wikipedia.org — no real link, just testing that bare URLs auto-link.
Marafounder
Made it here first. This place is ours now.
Idrisadmin
Ha — squatter's rights already?
Coen
Squatter's rights it is.