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TCNs as Alternative to Transformers?

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over the last months I've experimented with many alternatives to transformers, such as one i created github repo about:

https://github.com/bggb7781-collab/lrnnsmdds

Architectures I've experimented with and my personal notes as pros and cons:

1. RNNS: Like Mamba, RWKV and my attempt above: likely the best alternative to transformers but hard to parallelize and I've personally encountered weird logical "bugs": a. Severe bias over repeated text and the ending of the text corpus (go figure...). b. Speed similar to transformers.

Pros: a. Very limited RAM utilization and very good ability to generalize and learn, perplexity reaches to extremely low levels (~1.05 for 2+ for GPT in comparison). b. Relatively easy to understand as it uses backprop, feed-forward, matrices, very similar to transformers.

2. HDC: hyperdimensional computing: for the time being mostly sci-fi...

3. SNNs: spiking neural networks - i ended up having several vibecoded implementations in C#, F#, C. Ultimately despite novel ideas, not very succesful. May be could be succesful but at the moment mostly failure...still potential.

4. TCN: temporal convolution networks...best case it seems.

pros: after than rnn/transformers, good generalization, could be the next great reduction of resources in AI-gen!

screenshot of my last tcn attempts:

https://postimg.cc/R3r71PL2 - ultimately, there is a potential!

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Sorry, I replied. Spacex failed with Mars.

Just because they are not there YET doesn't mean they have failed period. Every. Single. Business. That Elon is running has SOMETHING to do with creating a civilization on a different planet.

*SpaceX supplies the starship

*Starlink supplies communications

*xAI provides automation and the mesh brain of their robotsTesla builds 3 things: -a battery pack to store energy -an electric vehicle -the Optimus robot

*Boring company digs really big holes because there is no atmosphere to protect you on Mars like there is on earth, the first settlements will most likely be underground.

**Neuralink so humans can connect to the AI and other systems more seamlessly.

Every. Single. One. Useful in one way or another for interstellar travel and or living on another planet.

So explain to me exactly how YOU think SpaceX has "failed with Mars".

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I replied. Spacex failed with Mars.

Just because they are not there YET doesn't mean they have failed period. Every. Single. Business. That Elon is running has SOMETHING to do with creating a civilization on a different planet. * SpaceX supplies the starship * Starlink supplies communications * xAI provides automation and the mesh brain of their robotsTesla builds 3 things: -a battery pack to store energy -an electric vehicle -the Optimus robot * Borin…

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because they are not there YET doesn't mean they have failed period. Every. Single. Business. That Elon is running has SOMETHING to do with creating a civilization on a different planet. * SpaceX supplies the starship * Starlink supplies communications * xAI provides automation and the mesh brain of their robotsTesla builds 3 things: -a battery pack to store energy -an electric vehicle -the Optimus robot * Borin…

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Chances are you've never invented anything or done anything extraordinary. Small minds think small things.

Enjoy being a simpleton.