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In Weaknesses of RNN architecture I’ll motivate the need for the transformer architecture. In Transformer architecture I’ll go more in depth into its architecture. Finally, in Experiments and results I’ll show how the transformer performance compares to the RNN performance, and as a sub-research question, how the original encoder-decoder transformer architecture compares to GPT-style decoder-only architecture in Encoder-decoder vs decoder-only

The online degree earned is the same as one in person. However I found the lectures to be much more "staged" online than the free-flowing in person lectures and discussions. So I would argue that the online lectures are of lower quality.

I would be grateful you have a job; most software engineering jobs pay relatively well. Be grateful for this pay.

Find something outside of work that excites you if work doesn't excite you. Work isn't everything. If the actual thing you do at work doesn't excite you, try making friends at work who do excite you.

If writing simple CRUD apps is boring, it sounds like you actually have some aptitude afterall. If it's boring, try to find the sweet spot of challenge with capability. It sounds like you are capable of more than what you are doing now, so gravitate in that direction and move from there.