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Hey friends —

I'm Radek. I'm a Senior Data Scientist at NVIDIA, a YouTuber and an author.

On this site I write about machine learning techniques and strategies you can use to learn faster.

And over at Tuesday Musings - my weekly newsletter - I share lessons from my machine learning journey and high-quality resources from across the web directly to your inbox.

    How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    An introductory chapter to a book on learning machine learning that I wrote.
    Nov 9, 2021 3 min read
    How to reach the top of the imagenette leaderboard?

    How to reach the top of the imagenette leaderboard?

    How to make your NNs more shift-invariant? What are some hyperparameter changes worth considering when training with a limited budget of epochs?
    Aug 18, 2021 5 min read
    Going From Not Being Able to Code to Deep Learning Hero

    Going From Not Being Able to Code to Deep Learning Hero

    A detailed plan for going from not being able to write code to being a deep learning expert. Advice based on personal experience.
    Aug 18, 2021 9 min read
    How to build a Deep Learning system that will answer questions about the Harry Potter universe?

    How to build a Deep Learning system that will answer questions about the Harry Potter universe?

    Riva is a set of APIs into a very complex, very well staffed AI research organization.
    Aug 6, 2021 4 min read
    20 Years of Tech Startup Experiences in One Hour by Jeremy Howard
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    20 Years of Tech Startup Experiences in One Hour by Jeremy Howard

    There is no such thing as business... there is only such a thing as making things people want and selling them to them.
    Jul 29, 2021 3 min read
    How to use the power of the community to learn faster

    How to use the power of the community to learn faster

    Community is the most powerful force behind online learning. It is the reason why MOOCs have a limited impact and tight-knit communities like fast.ai consistently produce unbelievable results.
    May 21, 2021 13 min read
    How to train and validate on Imagenet
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    How to train and validate on Imagenet

    Training on Imagenet is something that is completely trivial after you do it once, but if you are just someone on the Internet without such prior experience, it is an insurmountable task. Up until a couple of days ago, I didn't even know how to get the data! And then
    May 8, 2021 6 min read
    Machine Learning and Testing

    Machine Learning and Testing

    The rewards of testing can be immense, but so can be the price that one would need to pay for testing poorly.
    Mar 8, 2019 5 min read
    How to train your neural network

    How to train your neural network

    Evaluation of cosine annealing.
    Mar 12, 2018 5 min read
    Why take the log of a continuous target variable?

    Why take the log of a continuous target variable?

    In this article, we’ll look at a simple but useful concept that often gets overlooked.
    Mar 5, 2018 4 min read
    How to do machine learning efficiently

    How to do machine learning efficiently

    The only way to maintain your sanity in the long run is to be paranoid in the short run.
    Jan 22, 2018 5 min read
    Do smoother areas of the error surface lead to better generalization?

    Do smoother areas of the error surface lead to better generalization?

    An experiment inspired by the first lecture of the fast.ai MOOC
    Nov 7, 2017 3 min read
    Introduction to data augmentation and pseudo-labeling

    Introduction to data augmentation and pseudo-labeling

    A closer look at two techniques that can help you make the most of your training data.
    Oct 10, 2017 3 min read
    Can we beat the state of the art from 2013 with only 0.046% of training examples?

    Can we beat the state of the art from 2013 with only 0.046% of training examples?

    If we take the CNN layers of a pretrained model, how much data would we need to recover some of the mappings from features to classes? As it turns out, very little!
    Sep 23, 2017 3 min read
    Automated AWS spot instance provisioning with persisting of data
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    Automated AWS spot instance provisioning with persisting of data

    After following this guide, you will be able to spin up an AWS EC2 spot instance by executing a single command from your terminal. The instance will have a volume attached that will be persisted across shutdowns.
    Sep 15, 2017 7 min read
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