PSSA: A Non-Transformer Language Model Written from Scratch in Rust

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A developer presented PSSA, a language model that does not use the Transformer architecture, implemented entirely from scratch in Rust. The project was shared as a technical demonstration, highlighting the feasibility of building alternative model architectures in a systems programming language.

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