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Learning AI the Hard Way: Gritty, low level GPU programming is a lot like making popcorn
(originally posted to LinkedIn) It has been a while! How’ve you been?
Learning AI Poorly: Mixture of Experts (MoE)
(originally posted to LinkedIn) We all know that the more parameters a large language model has, the better it performs.
Learning AI Poorly: Is ChatGPT just a fancy WinZip?
(originally posted to LinkedIn) I spent entirely too long trying to remember what the name of that zip program that had an infinite free trial back forever ago… Like, I don’t think it was WinZip, but I’m going with it for now.
Learning AI Poorly: LLM Sizes? What's that?
(originally posted to LinkedIn) When companies release LLM models, like ChatGPT’s GPT-3 and Meta’s LLaMA, they often release multiple “sizes” of the model which specify how many “parameters” the model was trained on.
Computer Vision Using a Thing Called OpenCV
(originally posted on LinkedIn) It seems like Large Language Models (LLM’s) with their magical chat bots and what not have dominated the AI/ML news for long enough to feel… I don’t know… Boring?
Learning AI Poorly: Google Deep Mind Released a Thing...
(originally posted to LinkedIn) A lot of companies have AI models out there that do some pretty magical things.
Learning AI (and nuclear physics) Poorly: Sunday Friendsgiving Shenanigans
(originally posted to LinkedIn) Our friend group got together on Sunday and the kids were in town.
Learning AI Poorly: What is AGI?
(originally on LinkedIn) Most importantly, Happy Thanksgiving! I am so very thankful for everyone’s help, encouragement, and ideas for this weekly article I’ve been writing (still haven’t missed one!
Learning AI Poorly: How you might use ChatGPT to query your own pdfs...
(originally on LinkedIn) ChatGPT is great b/c you can ask it questions and it will give you a fun answer.
Learning AI Poorly: Transform music into "pictures" so AI can do its thing
(originally posted to LinkedIn) Say you want an AI that can identify cats… I think by now we all sort of know that you just have to create a fresh neural network (everything in it is set to random numbers) and then train it by feeding it a LOT of pictures of cats.
Learning AI Poorly: Convolutional Neural Networks helped The Beatles release one last song today
(originally posted on LinkedIn) Today, The Beatles released the last new song they will ever record.
Learning AI Poorly: Why does AI run on graphics cards?
(Originally posted on LinkedIn) To get ready for today’s article I spent this week attending random webinars about AI so I could write about the experience.
Learning AI Poorly: Walking through a scene made generated from a bunch of photorgaphs (3D Gaussian Splatting)
(originally posted to LinkedIn) I want to talk about something that isn’t really AI, but kind of is AI and then maybe ask what is AI?
Learning AI Poorly: How does AI know what to say?
(posted to LinkedIn) If you have been following along, you’ll know that language models generate their magic responses by:
Learning AI Poorly: Cloning Voices. What the?
(originally posted to LinkedIn) I feel like most of us can agree that AI is nuts.
Learning AI Poorly: ChatGPT writes an article about how to get ChatGPT to write an article about how to use ChatGPT
(originally posted to LinkedIn) what prompt would I use to have chatgpt write an article about prompts for an article about chatgpt?
Learning AI Poorly: What is Kaggle?
(originally posted to LinkedIn) You probably have heard of Kaggle when reading about AI and ML.
Learning AI Poorly: Training AI to Pick a Number Between 1 and 10
(originally posted on LinkedIn) Every time I type, “and then you train the model” I stop and think to myself, “Can I explain that?
Learning AI Poorly: You can start machine learning in 10 minutes... seriously
(previously posted on LinkedIn) I finally broke down and replaced my about-to-die 2017 MacBook with a brand new one.
Learning AI Poorly: How Does AI Generate Pictures?
(originally posted to LinkedIn) Did you ever wonder how a model can generate a picture from a prompt?
Learning AI Poorly: Mama llama code my... next project?
(originally posted on LinkedIn) Normally, on Thursday morning I take a look at the open tabs and various screenshots I took through the week regarding AI or ML and write something.
Learning AI Poorly: What is Hugging Face?
(originally posted on LinkedIn) If you’re kind of new and clicking around in the AI world and reading things you might see “Hugging Face” all over the place.
Learning AI Poorly: Can Meta's AudioCraft Inspire You to Write a Song?
(originally published on LinkedIn) Last week, Meta released AudioCraft which is, “Generative AI for audio made simple and available to all.
Learning AI Poorly: One way to get a foundational stats background for free
(originally posted on linkedIn) I’ve had a busy week getting the yard ready for the 2023 Jarts Midwest Regional Quarterfinals but it is the kind of work that lets the mind wander.
Learning AI Poorly: Using Neuroimaging Techniques to Analyze Deep Neural Networks on Your Kid's Gaming Rig
(Originally posted on LinkedIn) I’ve spent most of my career working in medical imaging and I got a little nostalgic for it after running into an old boss this week.
Learning AI the Hard Way: Turning your kid's gaming rig into a deep learning workstation
(originally posted on LinkedIn) There are a lot of easy ways to get started coding in AI and ML.
Learning AI the Hard Way: Why I Sold My 100 Watt Marshall Stack for a Neural Network
(originally posted on LinkedIn) AI and Machine Learning for audio is fascinating, and, much like text, it seems magical… Until you dig into the details and realize, much like ChatGPT, audio ML applications just take in list of integers and output another list of integers.
Learning AI Transformers Poorly: Recent Paper on Transformers Without Tokens
(originally posted on LinkedIn) There is a ton of progress in the Large Language Machine and Transformers space and if you want to keep up, you have to seek out and read research papers.
Learning Monte Carlo Methods Poorly: Randomly Find π by Throwing Yard Darts
(Originally posted on LinkedIn) Monte Carlo is a way to solve a problem by randomly throwing crap at it until it works.
Learning ChatGPT Poorly: How Big is Your Model? Parameter Size and Token Count
(originally posted on LinkedIn) When hearing about new versions of large language models, you may have noticed people talking about model size including parameter and token count.
Learning ChatGPT Poorly: Tokenizers
(Originally posted on LinkedIn) If you haven’t tried already, learning how ChatGPT, GPT-3.