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@svpino
Apr 7, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Today is #GumroadDay, so let's celebrate with style!

$5 for "How to get started with machine learning" TODAY ONLY!

You can kick off your machine learning career for less than the price of a Starbucks, but this one you can return if you don't like it!

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This is working. #GumroadDay is nuts!
Thanks to everyone that has supported me with this course!

Money to feed the family is what affords me the time to post content and focus on helping people with machine learning.

Even if you aren't buying this, like/retweet for visibility!

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Thank you * 1,000!
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84 copies sold today. 117 sold this month.

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After some feedback, I added a Table of Contents to the machine learning course:

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I have a real shot at $1,000 today!

(Holy shit, thanks everyone!)

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Jul 12
A common fallacy:

If it's raining, the sidewalk is wet. But if the sidewalk is wet, is it raining?

Reversing the implication is called "affirming the consequent." We usually fall for this.

But surprisingly, it's not entirely wrong!

Let's explain it using Bayes Theorem:

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This explanation is courtesy of @TivadarDanka. He allowed me to republish it.

He is writing a book about the mathematics of Machine Learning. It's the best book I've read:



Nobody explains complex ideas like he does.

2/10tivadardanka.com/books/mathemat…
We call propositions of the form "if A, then B" implications.

We write them as "A → B," and they form the bulk of our scientific knowledge.

For example:

"If X is a closed system, then the entropy of X cannot decrease" is the second law of thermodynamics.

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Jun 12
Some of the skills you need to start building AI applications:

• Python and SQL
• Transformer and diffusion models
• LLMs and fine-tuning
• Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Vector databases

Here is one of the most comprehensive programs that you'll find online:
"Generative AI for Software Developers" is a 4-month online course.

It's a 5 to 10-hour weekly commitment, but you can dedicate as much time as you want to finish early.

Here is the link to the program:

I also have a PDF with the syllabus:bit.ly/4aNOJdy


I'm a huge fan of online education, but most of it is all over the place and mostly theoretical.

This program is different:

You'll work on 4 different hands-on projects. You'll learn practical skills you can use at the office right away.cdn.sanity.io/files/tlr8oxjg…
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Jun 10
There's a stunning, simple explanation behind matrix multiplication.

This is the first time this clicked on my brain, and it will be the best thing you read all week.

Here is a breakdown of the most crucial idea behind modern machine learning:

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This explanation is courtesy of @TivadarDanka. He allowed me to republish it

3 years ago, he started writing a book about the mathematics of Machine Learning.

It's the best book you'll ever read:



Nobody explains complex ideas like he does.

2/15tivadardanka.com/books/mathemat…
Let's start with the raw definition of the product of A and B.

This looks horrible and complicated.

Let's unwrap it step by step.

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May 28
This assistant has 169 lines of code:

• Gemini Flash
• OpenAI Whisper
• OpenAI TTS API
• OpenCV

GPT-4o is slower than Flash, more expensive, chatty, and very stubborn (it doesn't like to stick to my prompts).

Next week, I'll post a step-by-step video on how to build this.
The first request takes longer (warming up), but things work faster from that point.

Few opportunities to improve this:

1. Stream answers from the model (instead of waiting for the full answer.)

2. Add the ability to interrupt the assistant.

3. Whisper running on GPU
Unfortunately, no local modal supports text+images (as far as I know,) so I'm stuck running online models.

The TTS API (synthesizing text to audio) can also be replaced by a local version. I tried, but the available voices suck (too robotic), so I kept OpenAI's.
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May 25
I’m so sorry about anyone who bought the rabbit r1.

It’s not just that the product is non-functional (as we learned from all the reviews), the real problem is that the whole thing seems to be a lie.

None of what they pitched exists or functions the way they said. Image
They sold the world on a Large Action Model (LAM), an intelligent AI model that would understand applications and execute the actions requested by the user.

In reality, they are using Playwright, a web automation tool.

No AI. Just dumb, click-around, hard-coded scripts. Image
Their foundational AI model is just ChatGPT + scripts.

Rabbit’s founder lied on their marketing videos, during interviews, when he presented the product, and lied on Discord when answering questions from early supporters.

And that’s just the beginning:
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Mar 31
What a week, huh?

1. Mojo 🔥 went open-source
2. Claude 3 beats GPT-4
3. $100B supercomputer from MSFT and OpenAI
4. Andrew Ng and Harrison Chase discussed AI Agents
5. Karpathy talked about the future of AI
...

And more.

Here is everything that will keep you up at night:
Mojo 🔥, the programming language that turns Python into a beast, went open-source.

This is a huge step and great news for the Python and AI communities!

With Mojo 🔥 you can write Python code or scale all the way down to metal code. It's fast!

modular.com/blog/the-next-…
Claude 3 is the best model in the market right now, overtaking GPT-4.

Claude 3 Opus is #1 in the Arena Leaderboard (beating GPT-4.)

Opus is a huge model, but Claude 3 Haiku is cheap and fast. And it's also beating GPT-4 0613!

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