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Paper Tape is All You Need
3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2026-03-25 · latest 2026-06-08
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…in the 1970s (I'm the author of both): https://github.com/dbrll/Xortran (backprop on IBM 1130, 60s) https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11 (Transformer on PDP-11, 70s) What was missing wasn't the raw processing power, but the ideas and…
comment by rahen · 2026-06-08 · in The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python -
…much earlier. It could have been done in the early 1970s -- see "Paper tape is all you need" at https://github.com/dbrll/ATTN-11 and the various C-64 projects that have been posted on HN -- but the problem was that Marvin Minsky "proved"…
comment by CamperBob2 · 2026-04-24 · in There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning -
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Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputerstory by rahen · 2026-03-25 · 26 comments