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2 papers — foundational reading for engineers

Each paper analyzed at three depths: plain English, technical walkthrough, and critical assessment.

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NeurIPS 2017

2017usemedium complexity95,000 citations

Attention Is All You Need

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin

“The architecture that rewrote the decade — every major language model traces its lineage here.”

#transformers#attention#nlp#deep-learning#architecture#ml

~45 min→

SOSP 2007

2007usehigh complexity8,500 citations

Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-Value Store

Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, Werner Vogels

“The paper that gave the industry vocabulary for hard trade-offs — and proved that 'always wrong sometimes' beats 'sometimes unavailable'.”

#distributed-systems#key-value#eventual-consistency#availability#storage#databases

~60 min→

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