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> is proof that architectures aren't fundamentally important in the curve-fitting paradigm (aka deep learning)

(Somewhat) fun and (somewhat) related fact: there's a whole cottage industry of "is all you need" papers https://arxiv.org/search/?query=%22is+all+you+need%22&search...

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Reminds me of the "Considered Harmful" articles:

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

I wonder if there's something about tech culture - or tech people - that encourages them to really, really like snowclones.

Yes. Do stuff that other people have been successful doing. Monkey see, monkey do - it's not a tech people thing, it's a human thing.

Tech just happens to be most on display at the moment - because tech people are building the tools and the parameters and the infrastructure handling all our interactions.

Not sure why people are surprised about this when it's the modus operandi of all life on the planet.

I could spam we are the stochastic parrots after all, yet one more time.

Quick, somebody write “All you need Considered Harmful” and “Considered Harmful all you need.”

Which seems closer to true?

All you need is all you need.

Starting of course with the classic paper from Lennon and McCartney, 1967.

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