he's right though, doing exercises is good! maybe 50/50 is a good split. the books have good exercises within them as well, but don't require you to write any code iirc
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Deep Learning Textbooks Outdated: Need New Comprehensive Resources
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crazy to me that the one seminal textbook on Deep Learning was written in 2015. ten years ago. before we invented transformers, pretraining, RLHF, reasoning, diffusion, MOEs… i think AI researchers these days may be too busy to write textbooks. but we need a new one, badly
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Imposter Syndrome and Rapid Expertise in Problem-Solving
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There is another paragraph about feeling turbocharged imposter syndrome when talking to subject matter experts and then realizing they’ve spent 0.01% of their career on *exactly* your new problem and so you understood it better than they do as of about day four or so.
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Replace Boltzmann Machines with Transformers in Deep Learning
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you can skip the DL chapter about boltzmann machines. replace it with material on Transformers
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Master AI: Read Two Essential Textbooks Cover to Cover
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take a year out of your life and read these two textbooks cover-to-cover. you will already know more than 90% of people in AI
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Balancing Mathematical and Physical Perspectives in Computer Science Education
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A major mistake I made in my undergrad is that I focused way too much on mathematical lens of computing – computability, decidability, asymptotic complexity etc. And too little on physical lens – energy/heat of state change, data locality, parallelism, computer architecture. The
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Next Generation Losing Writing Skills to AI Prompt Generation
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If the next generation cannot write and think well enough to come up with good prompts, they ask Claude to write a good prompt for them. The future is in grunt-to-speech models
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How AI tools reshape childhood learning and cognitive development
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Drawing, gaining basic knowledge across many areas, writing and coding are all skills that I learned as a child because no tool could do them for me. I wonder how I would have developed my mind if I was born today
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ChatGPT Surpassing Humans: Education Health Policy Unprepared
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Au moment de la Présidentielle de 2027, ChatGPT sera PLUS INTELLIGENT que 100 % des êtres humains Aucun politicien n’en parle Rien sur le crash de l’école qui est condamnée à l’insignifiance face à l’IA Rien sur l’inadaptation totale de la santé Le réveil sera douloureux
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Voice AI Masterclass with Free Credits and Expert Instructors
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Voice AI Masterclass @kwindla and @swyx talk through their upcoming class with >$10k in free credits! https://
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