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sirsinsalottoday at 10:24 AM1 replyview on HN

I think the attention mechanism is so simple but so revolutionary that people forget it.

Like the best leaps in thinking, once it is made, is is immediately obvious and intuitive.


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redox99today at 11:56 AM

Almost everything in ML is like that. It seems so obvious in hindsight. It's maybe what I love most.

Residual connections are so simple, so obvious and so vital. Yet nobody came up with them until 2015?

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