Papers that changed how I think about AI, crypto, computing, and what's possible.
Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar et al.
Introduced the Transformer — the foundation of GPT, BERT, and every modern LLM. Arguably the most impactful ML paper of the decade.
Satoshi Nakamoto
The 9-page paper that started a trillion-dollar asset class. Elegant solution to the double-spend problem without trusted third parties.
Google Quantum AI (Acharya et al.)
Google's 105-qubit Willow chip exponentially suppresses logical errors — achieving below-threshold quantum error correction for the first time. A 30-year goal reached.
Zandieh, Daliri, Hadian, Mirrokni (Google Research)
Compresses LLM key-value caches to 3 bits per channel — ~6x reduction in RAM — with near-zero accuracy loss and no retraining.
