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we’re going back to the roots with a fairly minimal issue today! Let’s see some machine learning links!

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• You can use deep learning to fix MRI scans of using patients!
• This is a great guide to Midjourney!
• Huggingface published a minimal ML framework in Rust

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Happy weekend! I took a lovely bike tour yesterday to soak up the last sun rays. Let’s enjoy some machine learning this morning!

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• Have you tried the Potato Prompt yet?
• Scammers have now taken to fake AI-generated Travel Guidebooks
• AI models are transforming weather forecasting!

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the last days of summer are here. I hope you’re reading this at a pool! Let’s enjoy some machine learning as a treat!

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• Machine learning models are transforming weather forecasting
• Ever wanted to integrate AI into your pandas dataframe?
• They built a GPT Research Agent, and I have to say I’m pretty intrigued!

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The last month just flew by. Let’s gather, resettle, and start September with some awesome machine learning!

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• WeatherBench 2 is out! And for ML benchmarks, it’s very pretty to click around in!
• The AI grifters have done it. Dangerous AI-generated mushroom foraging books pop up on Amazon.
• Here’s an anti-hype LLM reading list

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Where’d that week go already? Time flies when you’re having fun. Let’s look at some machine learning and a surprise appearance of Python!

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• Meta just published code-Llama
• You can now run Python in Excel natively
• How do you explain gradient boosting?

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back on our usual shenanigans! This week we have lots of great content, new Python conferences and, of course, our beloved machine learning. Let’s dive in!

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• Why this data scientist found happiness in switching to data engineering
• ML-aided algorithm discovers potentially hazardous asteroid
• The Real Danger of ChatGPT by Nerdwriter1

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I’ve been playing with Notion and productivity all day. But let’s look at machine learning for a change!

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• NASA and IBM open-sourced a foundation model for satellite data
• NYU launches an AI ethics initiative in journalism
• François Fleuret published his deep learning pocketbook

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Time flies when you're having fun. Fly to the bottom of this issue to find 5(!) ML positions at ECMWF! Until then, let's enjoy some machine learning!

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• A personal assistant and chatbot that works locally with your (e.g. Obisidan) notes?!
• Jupyter now has an %ai magic for generative AI
• Prompt-tools runs your prompt against different LLMs for you to pick and choose

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Another week passed already?! Time flies when you’re having fun… and machine learning!

By the way, there's now 1,100 of you! Welcome everyone!

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• OpenAI finally scuttles their AI text detector for low accuracy
• This blog article poses that transformers are bad at math because attention is off-by-one
• On that note, I had these formal algorithms for transformers in my collection for a while

it’s my birthday! Let’s enjoy some cake… err… machine learning!

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• Huggingface Transformers can already serve Meta’s LLama 2!
• Thousands of authors sign a letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books.
• Interesting ways to think about the consciousness of (digital) minds.

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I’m on a train halfway through Germany. It truly has been an eventful week! Let’s talk about some machine learning!

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• Keras is getting a Pytorch and Jax backend!
• The internet is going wild over Gzip beating transformers in text classification!
• Wikipedia uses a bunch of Xgboost models to detect vandalism!

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I wasn’t doing super well this week, but somehow things keep happening. I have some really fun machine learning (and other content) today. So let’s dive in!

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• The Introduction to Statistical Learning now comes in Python!!
• I love this collection of papers and tech blogs in data and ML
• Google announced the first Machine Unlearning challenge

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it’s the weekend! Let’s celebrate with some machine learning!

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• A catalog of transformer models and how they work
• 13 Freelance developer portfolios to inspire you
• In defense of prompt engineering by Simon Willison

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It’s scorching out, so let’s get ready for a summer edition and enjoy some machine learning together!

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• The Rise of machine learning in weather forecasting
• Turns out OpenAI lobbied the EU to water down AI regulation
• Check out this great explainer for BatchNorm

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I’ve had a lovely week at work. So in celebration of some awesome machine learning, let’s look at some more machine learning together!

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• This is an amazing deep dive into embeddings!
• Pomsky is a way to finally write regular expressions without regex.
• Did you see Hugging Chat already?

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This newsletter has its very first paying member! Thank you so much for the support and keeping the lights on! 🎉

This has been mostly a self-care week for me. I hope you are doing alright! Let’s brighten that mood with some awesome machine learning!

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• Google created 9 (nine!) courses on generative AI
• How to write a data annotation and labelling guide
• Learn about Flash Attention in a digestible Youtube video

Happy Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈 Hope you have some fun things planned. Until then, let’s enjoy some machine learning!

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• This free book about teaching you math is going viral right now!
• Large Language models on CPU? Yes, please!
• This prompt engineering guide is legendary.

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it’s time I listen to you! I have some questions for you about the future of this newsletter! What is of value and what isn’t? But first some machine learning!

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• This SigGraph paper where you can drag your GAN in a neat UI is incredible
• Karpathy talked about how chatGPT was trained at MS Build
• Build scalable React-based WebApps in Python with solara

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coming in hot from the last leg of vacation in Florida! But there’s a lot of new faces in here, so let’s get a cheeky little vacation edition in before we’re back on full throttle next week! On to some machine learning!

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• Databricks put in the work to make an open-source, commercially viable LLM: Dolly
• Check out this explainer about Equality of Odds, a super interesting fairness concept in ML
• Can you use chatGPT to “self-heal” your Python code?

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aah, I’m back home, but already getting ready for more shenanigans! Let’s enjoy some machine learning.

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• Google is merging their AI divisions Brain and Deepmind into Deepmind
• The computer vision tutorials in Jupyter seem very high quality
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a statement about AI copyright

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happy Saturday, everyone! I’m preparing for some travel, but before lift-off, let’s look at more machine learning!

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• Check out this course on CI/CD for machine learning by Weights & Biases!
• Reddit mods are bracing for the great chatGPT spampocalypse.
• EditAnything is an online demo from segmentation to style transfer to anything

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Apologies for the miss, I’ll explain below. Let’s talk about machine learning first!

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• Visual labeling of data right in your Jupyter notebook
• This Python linter written in Rust is incredibly fast
• They warned Google about sentient AI hype… last year already! History repeats itself

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I am deeply enjoying the long Easter weekend here, but I won’t deprive you of your weekly machine learning dose!

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• I loved this annotated version of the transformer paper for deeper understanding!
• F-strings are great, but I can never remember the number formatting. Here’s a cheat sheet!
• The Learning interpretability tool is a nifty often source platform for ML explainability

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Can you believe that March is over already? What a crazy Q1 already with chatGPT and the whole GraphCast craziness. Sure keeps life interesting. Let’s look at some fun things I found this week!

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• Enrich your NLP datasets with extras like link extraction or sentence complexity
• This library helps you refurbish your Python code to best practices with explanations
• You can make 3blue1brown-style videos for machine learning now!

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What a week! I have been publishing a video a day, so let’s dive into some machine learning for more inspiration!

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• An Introduction to Data-Centric AI by MIT on Youtube
• MatPlotX, Matplotlib but make it ✨stylish✨
• A fantastic list of Awesome Diffusion Models

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We’re having a proper “news” issue this week! Let’s look at the machine learning news!

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• People are trying out GPT-4, and it’s pretty fun to play around with!
• This tool helps you benchmark your Pytorch DataLoaders.
• Pytorch 2.0 is the fastest Pytorch yet, and even more Pythonic (whatever that means)!

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it's been a week! I have been polishing my new projects to give them their best, but first, some machine learning!

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• This ML training handbook by Google is quite handy, albeit not the newest.
• Tips for structuring your research group's Python packages
• Finally, a proper stable diffusion fork for Macs!

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I was a bit under the weather this week, but next week we’re finally releasing my MOOC segment on deep learning! Let’s dive into some other machine learning first!

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• This paper predicts images we are thinking of from brain scans! Fascinating but terrifying.
• Hackathon winner creates a dark ship detector with stable diffusion and GANs to detect illegal over-fishing
• These animations for neural network education are amazing!

***Thanks to David for sending in the brain scan paper!***

How are you doing today? We’ve got some fresh, hot machine learning right from the source today!

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• CNet ran a bunch of AI-generated articles and found errors in more than 50% in hindsight
• Pyvista looks really nice for 3D visualization in Python
• You can write GPT from scratch in 60 lines

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what a week! I’ve been working really hard to finish up my content for the ECMWF MOOC and wrote a massive piece on “quick wins” to make machine learning models in science. Let’s look at some other machine learning first, though!

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• You too can train Transformers at scale like Microsoft trained Bing
• How to achieve success in an ML PhD? Just know stuff (maybe)
• Arxiv teamed up with Hugging Face to bring implementation right to you on Arxiv

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What a week of announcements. Announcements and failures! Often a theme emerges when I collect my favourite links, and this issue sure is filled with learnings and failures. Let’s dive right in!

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• Google lost $100 billion in stock value over factual mistakes in a half-baked chatGPT competitor announcement
• In a terrifying display, developers built a police sketch app on top of DALL-E 2, enforcing unethical biases
• “A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures” documents problems even from the best model we currently have

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the trial month of 2023 is over. How did it go? I’m neither entirely disappointed nor jumping with joy. But let’s jump right into some machine learning instead!

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• There’s a new Coursera by Deepmind on the mathematics of machine learning
• Looks like the self-driving Tesla video was fudged at request of Elon Musk, reported by Bloomberg
• Huggingface debuted their own machine learning competition platform with “AI or Not”

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what a week, it looks like tech is further imploding. Let’s look at some machine learning instead!

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• Stability AI is being sued by artists over Stable Diffusion publicly.
• This book about Understanding Deep Learning goes deep.
• This “course” about learning prompt engineering was really insightful.

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it's been a week... I am still struggling with burnout, but that won't keep us from an awesome issue packed with machine learning goodies. Let's dive right in!

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• Quincy Larson, the person behind freecodecamp wrote a book about learning to code and getting a job as a dev. And it’s free!
• If you’re into Python, you know the GIL is the bane of many performance enthusiasts. This PEP suggests making it optional and asks for comments.
• This list has chatGPT prompts and uses I haven’t seen before, which is pretty neat!

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some really nice links for you today. From reviews to embeddings to “is it AI or is it art?!”. Let’s dive right in!

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• I’m a sucker for annual review posts, so this collection of reviews in AI was a lovely find
• Enrich knowledge of data embeddings with fancy embedded background data by Gael and folks!
• The NeurIPS talks are online and freely available now

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the first week of 2023 is finding its end. I got a late Christmas present and we're now over 1000 subscribers in this little newsletter! Welcome everyone! Let's look at some machine learning.

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• NeRF Studio is an easy way to play around with neural radiance fields
• Putting machine learning into production seems never easy, this interview study gives a nice overview of making it suck a little less.
• Want inspiration for AI art? Lexica is a searchable gallery of generated images! (Possibly NSFW)

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I had a problem with my email distributor last week. Please check your spam folder. It looks like only 10% of you actually got the last email! But with this email, we should be back on track! I hope you had a lovely holiday season! 2023 is almost here, so let’s hit the ground running with some fascinating machine learning!

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• Everyone is publishing their 2022 reviews, and I quite enjoyed this thread on ML papers in 2022

• Learn about transformers from Stanford in CS25 for free

• There’s an entire Crash Course on data literacy for free as well, which is fantastic!

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it’s been a while! I have burnt out, but let’s look at some machine learning, before I talk about that!

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• This book is fascinating: Parables of AI in/from the majority world

• I have been reading about git etiquette a bit, so this article about The Perfect Commit struck a chord.

• Deep neural nets are notorious for being overly confident. Fortuna tries to introduce some proper uncertainty quantification.

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the year is almost over, and SO MUCH is happening. Check out the workshop and my giveaway! But before that, some machine learning!

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• Do you look at Pytorch tensors to figure out what’s wrong? Try lovely-tensors to get an intuitive overview instead!
• I have been reading more about git recently. This Idiot proof git workflow was quite interesting to follow!
• I found this intersectional AI toolkit quite fascinating! A good resource to keep around and make AI more equitable.

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lots of awesome things are happening here, I have a workshop coming up with some awesome speakers and much more! But let’s start with some machine learning!

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• Parsing PDFs is a holy grail in business ML, Parsr tries to approach this problem quite successfully.
• AI is this moving goalpost, but how about a roadmap instead outlining steps towards general artificial intelligence?
• This library of learned optimisers for neural networks seems quite interesting.

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what an eventful week. Twitter seems to be dying slowly, and winter has eventually arrived. Let’s warm our hearts with some machine learning!

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• Facebook created a “scientific AI” called Galactica, and it was terrible and pulled after only 3 days.
• Quantus is an explainable AI kit that uses different XAI techniques.
• Notion has developed a writing AI, and you can sign up for the Beta Waitlist now!

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it’s a lovely day and the weekend is near. Let’s enjoy some machine learning together!

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• Stable Diffusion has made quite the stride in just a few months. This Twitter thread gives a nice overview.
• Alternatives to Github Copilot are rare, for now. Huggingface is inviting AI researchers to contribute to BigCode.
• Difftastic is a diff program that understands syntax!

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I’m unfortunately still not doing well, so we’ll have a shorter issue today. So let’s enjoy some machine learning!

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• The next level in using Stable Diffusion is installing a WebGUI instead of using Huggingface spaces and this InvokeAI fork is pretty comprehensive and open source!
• Writing tests for machine learning can feel daunting. This article makes writing robust tests for data and ML more accessible!
• This AI4Code Kaggle challenge is very nice to read through (and there’s 7 days left).

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your eyes do not deceive you; this is a new issue on an actual Friday! I’m sick at home, so let’s cheer up with some machine learning!

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• This website explains any part of any paper that you highlight and allows follow-up questions.
• The Follower connects open camera data with AI to find live footage of influencers in the wild. Yes, it’s as creepy as it feels.
• I’m low-key obsessed with Stable Diffusion; here is a collection of open prompts.

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this week had more deadlines than days and I’m severely jetlagged. However, this is the 100th issue of this newsletter! How could I not share more awesome things?! Let’s dive into some machine learning!

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• I love a good “Awesome List” and this one is on Diffusion Models!
• Scikit-learn and huggingface join forces to serve classical ML models
• Registrations opened for a new MOOC for machine learning in weather & climate prediction

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if you go back and analyse how many newsletters were late and which ones mention that I’m stressed, I think there’s some overlap. But regardless, there has been some amazing machine learning going one, so let’s check those out for a break!

Also welcome to all those 100s new subscribers! We're over 850 now!

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• The State of AI report for 2022 just dropped.
• Selecting features in data science is important. LOFO-importance for feature selection automates this selection by leaving a feature out and retraining.
• Kaggle published their data from the 2022 ML and data science survey.

I’m back in the office playing catch-up. The last quarter of the year has started, and I feel behind on everything. I know I tend to do too much, but is it finally catching up to me? Anyways, let’s catch up on some awesome machine learning!

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• Can AI discover new scientific insight? Well, Deepmind just published a paper discovering new efficient ways to multiply matrixes that are larger than 2x2!
• I love the illustrated guide to transformers. Here’s the new illustrated guide to stable diffusion.
• You’ve just learned about stable diffusion? How about using it to generate whole videos. Incredible.

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it’s been a while! My vacation made me forget the time, as it should, so I completely missed last week. Apologies! But I’m back at my desk now. Full of energy. Ready to take on the world of machine learning! So let’s dive in.

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• You know the advice to not “copy and paste commands” because it’s unsafe and you still always do? Shellfirm tries to secure your shell for risky command patterns like deleting everything with rm -rf *
• This article uses language as a means to explain machine learning generalization with neat illustrations!
• Gaussian Processes sometimes seem to be on the fringes of modern machine learning, but they’re incredibly useful.

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I’m still on vacation in Mozambique. Went for my first dives and it’s a blast. But that won’t keep us from some awesome machine learning! Masks on, regulators in, let’s dive into it!

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• Quantus is an explainable AI library that looks very promising with different metrics across different factors of XAI
• The Scipy 2022 Machine Learning & Data Science talks are on Youtube!
• Ever wanted to learn CUDA? You could try these GPU puzzles to get started.

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I just emerged on a beautiful beach in Mozambique after 3 days of travelling, apologies for the delay! The next few newsletter issues will be reduced to still share awesome things with you, while honoring that I am on vacation. But I genuinely enjoy writing these issues too much to skip them completely, so let’s dive into some machine learning!

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• How about a $250,000 USD cash grant for your AI-native product idea to kick things off? The AI grant is by some awesome people for awesome people so check it out!
• This Hacker News thread on the proper way to get into ML in 2022 was fun to browse
• How about giving your torch tensor dimensions names instead of guessing the index?

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