Twitter threads
I sometimes get asked for a list of the more memorable Twitter threads and tweets that I wrote and hence I decided to put it together. Here it is 🙂
learning resources
- Can you start learning cutting-edge deep learning without specialized hardware?
 - Summary of BatchNorm, LayerNorm, InstanceNorm and GroupNorm
 - How to debug in Jupyter notebook
 - What differentiates fast.ai students who do really well from the rest?
 - Ever wondered what a class in Python is and how come everything is an object?
 - Why bottlenecks in NN design are important?
 - Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Python decorators (and more)!
 - This is what overemphasizing math when learning ML can lead to
 - How to win at Kaggle.
 - Thoughts on the fastai v4 deep learning course
 - [notes] outstanding lecture on ethics by Rachel Thomas
 - [notes] how to make your workplace more inclusive
 - [notes] Journey to Kaggle #1 — a talk by Philipp Singer
 - How I started blogging
 - How to process pandas DataFrames in parallel
 - Can one grab a matplotlib plot as a numpy array?
 - How to work with sound in Python? 🎶🎙️🥁
 - Using the validation set for training
 - Adding functionality to fastai on the fly
 - Video by Yannic Kilcher on the "Attention is all you need" paper
 - Links to a great set of resources on introduction to probability
 - What is hard negative mining?
 - What does it mean for UMAP to preserve local and global structure?
 - What are packed sequences in PyTorch?
 - Excel-style conditional formatting using pandas
 
projects done with fast.ai
- Implementation of a paper on sperm whale bioacoustics using fastai (Random Forest)
 - A thread of people sharing their projects
 - Classification / metric learning using fastai
 - Learning an embedding space for locations by @sentiance
 - Tattoo removal from images by Vijish Madhavan
 - Class activation mapping
 
assorted thoughts
- Why did I write Meta Learning?
 - [notes] A vision for the future of ML frameworks by Soumith Chintala
 - [notes] Modern Artificial Intelligence 1980s - 2021 by Jürgen Schmidhuber
 - [notes] Art in Light of AI — a talk on AI art by Helena Sarin
 - Being new to something is a superpower 🦸
 - What I thought becoming employable in deep learning would be vs what it ended up being
 - "We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience." - John Dewey
 - How I got my first two DL assignments
 - I'm falling behind in fast.ai lectures, what do I do?
 - Everything worth learning feels too hard to learn before we learn it.
 - The Origin of Wealth — a great book to read with an extensive section on algorithms
 - You can't learn a profession by studying a textbook.
 - school vs life
 - How to build your personal website and serve it using GithubPages for free