[HN Gopher] Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition
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Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition
Author : kelseyfrog
Score : 14 points
Date : 2026-02-28 22:10 UTC (49 minutes ago)
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| pankajdoharey wrote:
| Looks like a Tiny Analytic transformer, RNN is arguably a better
| choice if you are gonna handwire an architecture to mechanically
| do addition. Learning is about discovering the patterns and
| algorithm from data. Wiring a machine to follow a procedure
| defeats that purpose.
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