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		novia on July 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What would it take to recreate Bell Labs? The paper on transformers come out in 2017. Less than a decade ago.

ozim on July 18, 2024 [–]

7 years is basically rounding error from a decade ago.

novia on July 18, 2024 | [–]

https://research.google/pubs/?&

Go look at the breakdown of the number of research papers coming out of Google. In 2023 there were 744, in 2017 there were 637. Two decades ago, there were half as many.

lrem on July 19, 2024 | | [–]

No no, the new research does not have a proven track record of industry success, so it doesn’t count ;)

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