Veldnotities
Een dozijn pdf's onderbouwt een biljoen dollar aan infrastructuur. Dit zijn de papers waar de ideeën voor het eerst verschenen — de meeste zijn verrassend leesbaar, en elk record hier vertelt u wat er toe deed, zonder de wiskunde.
Begin met deze drie
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Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Acht auteurs, één architectuur, alles sindsdien.
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Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
De correctie die veranderde hoe elk model wordt getraind.
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DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
Het open recept voor redeneren — gepubliceerd terwijl concurrenten het hunne geheim hielden.
Foundational papers
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Attention Is All You Need (2017)
The eight Google authors who invented the transformer.
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AlexNet (2012)
The ImageNet result that started the deep-learning era — on two gaming GPUs.
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Constitutional AI (2022)
Anthropic's method: models critique themselves against written principles.
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DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
The open recipe for reasoning models — a Nature cover, from a hedge fund's lab.
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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (2020)
The DDPM paper behind every image and video generator.
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FlashAttention (2022)
The kernel trick that made long context affordable.
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Highly Accurate Protein Structure Prediction (2021)
AlphaFold 2 in Nature — the result that won a Nobel.
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InstructGPT — RLHF at Scale (2022)
How raw language models became assistants people can use.
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Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
The GPT-3 paper: capability from scale, tasks from prompts.
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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation (2021)
Fine-tuning for the GPU-poor — tiny adapters instead of full weights.
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Kaplan et al.: loss falls as a power law in compute — the investment thesis, quantified.
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Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
DeepMind's correction: most models were undertrained on data.