The DDoS attack started in 2018, though at the time, I didn't see it coming. I remember standing with colleagues in a hallway, at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento. The conversation went like this:
- Have you seen that new overblown model that performs so well on the X and Y benchmarks?
- Well, given the size, they might as well use random projections, would probably work great.
- Haha! Yeah. Wanna grab a coffee?
The model was the Transformer. /1