[HN Gopher] Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Di...
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       Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion
       Language Models
        
       Author : t55
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-05-08 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | notrealyme123 wrote:
       | This was posted here already a few weeks ago.
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | Whenever I try to read and understand this paper, I feel
       | extremely dumb. I have my degree in CS, but this is just too
       | complex for me to understand.
        
         | AlexCoventry wrote:
         | Ask ChatGPT o3 about anything you don't understand, ask it
         | about anything in its responses you don't understand. Keep
         | drilling down until you do understand. Takes patience, but you
         | can learn a lot very fast, this way.
        
         | evertedsphere wrote:
         | an undergraduate degree in a field is not enough to understand
         | recent research in a specialised subfield of a subfield and you
         | shouldn't beat yourself up over that
         | 
         | there's nothing wrong with you, you just need the right
         | background and you can go get that. see e.g. the fast.ai course
        
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