Notas de campo
Uma dúzia de PDFs sustenta um trilhão de dólares em infraestrutura. São os artigos onde as ideias apareceram pela primeira vez — a maioria é surpreendentemente acessível, e cada registro aqui diz o que importou, sem a matemática.
Comece por estes três
AI
Attention Is All You Need (2017)
Oito autores, uma arquitetura, tudo desde então.
TC
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
A correção que mudou a forma como todo modelo é treinado.
DR
DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
A receita aberta para raciocínio — publicada enquanto os rivais mantinham a sua em segredo.
Foundational papers
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AI
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.
CA
Constitutional AI (2022)
Anthropic's method: models critique themselves against written principles.
DR
DeepSeek-R1 — Reasoning via RL (2025)
The open recipe for reasoning models — a Nature cover, from a hedge fund's lab.
DD
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.
HA
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.
LM
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (2020)
The GPT-3 paper: capability from scale, tasks from prompts.
LL
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation (2021)
Fine-tuning for the GPU-poor — tiny adapters instead of full weights.
SL
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020)
Kaplan et al.: loss falls as a power law in compute — the investment thesis, quantified.
TC
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs — Chinchilla (2022)
DeepMind's correction: most models were undertrained on data.