I haven't read through the entire thing yet, but the long abstract combined with the way the acronym BDH is introduced (What does the B stand for?) along with the very "flowery" name (When neither "dragon" nor "hatchling" appears again past page 2) is rather offputting

- It seems strange to make use of the term "scale-free" and then defer a definition until half way through the paper (in fact, the term is mentioned 3 times after, and 14 times before said definition)

- This might just be CS people doing CS things, but the notation in the paper is awful: Claims/Observations end with a QED-symbol (for example on pages 29 and 30) but without a proof

- They make strong claims about performance and scaling ("It exhibits Transformer-like scaling laws") but the only (i think?) benchmark is a translation task comparison with <1B models, ,which is ~2 orders of magnitude smaller than sota