Jan. 7, 2022, 5:19 p.m.

🎆 It’s a new year! Viva la resolución!

Late To The Party

Hey folks 🎉

I moved to Germany on New Year’s Day. Since everything in Germany works a bit slower, I will only get internet next week. But my limited consumption of awesome machine learning shall not hold us back. To the links!

The Latest Fashion

  • Most Kagglers post their winning solutions but it can be difficult to sift through these posts. Lucky for us there’s a website aggregating solution posts!

  • Rule-based learning can be extremely finicky but powerful and interpretable! Paypal open-sourced Iguanas for this application!

  • Understanding transformers is essential for modern-day deep learning. Brandon Rohrer published a Transformers from Scratch post.

My Current Obsession

I’m trying to survive on the last gigabytes of Roaming from my British cell phone carrier. Figuring out all the shenanigans in a new place and new country. No internet to wind down honestly sucks though.

I made a gamble that it would be pretty Covid safe. It paid off.

I figured flying 6am in New Year’s would be the most covid safe way to travel. I was right. pic.twitter.com/nW1GO1FvKC

— Jesper Dr.amsch (@JesperDramsch) January 1, 2022

Thing I Like

My phone is the MVP of this international move. Between Corona Apps, calendars, internet access, and maps, it’s also great entertainment with all the podcasts I have to entertain me.

Hot off the Press

The last paper from my PhD was finally published by IEEE. It uses a self-supervised neural network to match 3D seismic volumes. Definitely the work I’m most proud of from my PhD work.

I published an experimental Youtube Short on websites that will teach you about machine learning.

Tidbits from the Web

  • Safiya Nygaards Boba shop takeover was weirdly educational and as always very entertaining.

  • In the Christmas issue I wrote about Matt Parkers mathematical Christmas tree and the tree got into Harvard!

  • Learner of things Mike Boyd spent a video rating all of his videos learning things and it’s inspirational and fun.

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