I spent at least five years trying to use statistical ml and mlps to do NLP on social media comments from about 2003. Nothing like a transformer (or an rnn even

I spent at least five years trying to use statistical ml and mlps to do NLP on social media comments from about 2003. Nothing like a transformer (or an rnn even) occurred to me. I have a belief that someone in the USSR worked out a way of doing fluid dynamics that has enabled the Russians to develop hypersonics and super cavitation. This is probably rather straightforward - in the style of NS - of you know the principles. No one in the West ( or China) knows those principles, so Western torpedos and reentry vehicles are rather poor Vs Russian ones. Once you grasp how something works the fact that it's rather easy to apply in comparison to the process of getting the insight shouldn't detract from the value of the insight .