Fat Rust Developer retweeted
Our ability to do things is dying a death of 1000 cuts.
It's nice to talk about bottlenecks and silver bullets, but my hypothesis is that stagnation is the accumulation of many small frictions.
My plan is to continuously update this thread with examples as they pop up.
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is. 👇
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
GPT-4 will have the same number of parameters as GPT-3, but these parameters will be kiki instead of bouba
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
More generally, the narrative that we're in decline (in tech or otherwise) because of "wokeness" (a term used exclusively by a certain kind of people to designate everything they don't like about social progress, the way they might have used "hippies" in the 1960s) is nonsense.
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
LeCun's "5 best ideas 2012-22” are mostly from my lab, and older: 1 Self-supervised 1991 RNN stack; 2 ResNet = open-gated 2015 Highway Net; 3&4 Key/Value-based fast weights 1991; 5 Transformers with linearized self-attention 1991. (Also GAN 1990.) Details: people.idsia.ch/~juergen/lec…
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
Over the 7 weeks since Stable Diffusion's release, we've seen many amazing open-source contributions from the community. A lot of them have come in the form of awesome Google Colab notebooks! 🔥
Here is a thread of 14 awesome notebooks we've seen from the community ↓
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
💫 Progress in Language Models continue to trend!
In this week's newsletter: we highlight the latest developments in language models, a unified object tracker, audio self-supervised learning, and more.
Read on here: paperswithcode.com/newslette…
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
If you've ever wanted to convert a PDF table to a pandas DataFrame, the #Python package 'tabula-py' lets you do this in one line of code🐍✨
You'll need to have Java installed for the package to work. Otherwise, just run 'pip install tabula-py'💕
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
Five Google Chrome Extensions that every Machine Learning / Data Science Newbie should know about 🚀💯
Thread 🧵👇
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
I've spent 1000's of hours building ML models over the last couple years.
Truth is, 100's of those hours were wasted because I was working inefficiently.
Here are 5 actionable tips to produce better results more efficiently.
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
Este año estoy dictando dos cursos en el Master of #DataScience en la @fcfm_Uchile y quiero compartir el material que hemos generado: Pequeño hilo a continuación para los cursos de #MachineLearning y Estadística
Fat Rust Developer retweeted
📢 Time to share a project I’ve been working on:
Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks
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