Recently, I shared a list of some courses that were useful in my transition to machine learning.

While I took most of the courses in person, there are some alternative online courses you can check out.

Here is a thread of a few interesting online courses based on the list:

There is a lot of interest in large language models.

As a developer or researcher, you are probably looking for a guide on how to ramp up on LLMs.

Here is a study plan you could try:

My suggested study plan for now: 1) get familiar with concepts, 2) learn about Transformers, 3) learn about the foundation models, 4) continue keeping track of code, papers, and results, and 5) get building.

1) CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

It doesn't hurt to learn some of the concepts first. Depending on your level of knowledge it might be suitable to try a more basic

2) Stanford CS25 - Transformers United

Learn all about transformers in this fantastic

3) Foundation Models

You can learn about all types of foundation models like GPT-3, DINO, CLIP, Codex, among

🔥 Applied Deep Learning - 2021 🔥

Just came across this absolute gem.

200+ free video lectures on all sorts of topics related to deep learning.

From Graph Attention Networks to RL algorithms.

repo: https://t.co/2IRF3CcR5p

playlist: https://t.co/N4zqkqnfdu

Machine Learning Notes

I've been writing notes introducing some of the most important topics in AI today.

This thread lists a few notes I've published so far:

Introduction to Machine

Introduction to Deep

Introduction to Sequential

Introduction to Deep Computer

1) 🚨BREAKING: Parents file lawsuit against Villa Duchesne High School for "intentional racial discrimination" against white students, and using "coercion, intimidation, and threats" to indoctrinate students into Critical Race Theory.

2) Students were told that all white people are racist because they're white, and that black students should "be free from discipline regardless of their behavior."

3) Plaintiff's daughter was subjected to "verbal attacks, and physical threats, social ostracism, false imprisonment, permanent damage to her reputation, and severe and continuing emotional and psychiatric injury."

4) In October a student claimed that the Plaintiff's daughter had stood up in class, pointed to a black student and said "Black Lives Do NOT Matter!"

However, the class where this vent allegedly took place was videotaped, and upon review no such event had occurred.

5) Following the accusations, the plaintiff's daughter was "subject to enormous social ridicule and threats of personal violence."

During a meeting, the principal and a faculty member allowed a black student to aggressively verbally berate the daughter, without intervention.

SCOOP: San Diego Unified School District tells white teachers they are guilty of “spirit murdering” black children and should undergo “antiracist therapy for White educators.”

I've obtained explosive whistleblower documents from the training session. Let's dig in. 🧵

This summer, San Diego Unified hired critical race theorist Bettina Love for a district-wide training on "[challenging] the oppressive practices that live within ... school organizations." The district forbade recordings, but my whistleblower took screenshots and detailed notes.

According to the whistleblower notes, Love began by saying that "racism runs deep" in America and that blacks alone "know who America really is." Love claimed that public schools "don't see [blacks] as human," perpetuate “anti-Blackness,” and "spirit murder babies."

The concept of “spirit murder” is at the heart of Love’s teachings. Love writes that public schools are guilty of “the spirit murdering of Black and Brown children,” defines as “a death that is built on racism and intended to reduce, humiliate, and destroy people of color.”

During the presentation, Love argued that “Whiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.” She insisted that “white educators must take responsibility” because they uphold “white supremacy culture.”

For months, but especially after the new CDC school recs came out, supporters of reopening all schools now have been peddling the idea that schools across the country have been open all year successfully. This argument is used to push for ALL schools to be opened now.

A long 🧵

Though some schools in the U.S. are open & doing well with safety protocols, many places used as examples of opening success have profoundly unsafe schools & are neglecting covid safety. Some have been lucky not to have outbreaks and other issues--it's not that they're safe.

In the last few weeks, I've been in touch with teachers in Ohio, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Utah, and Pennsylvania.

(Thanks to @eduwonkette_jen @GeoRebekah and @saribethrose for the threads and forums that have helped me meet SO MANY teachers this year).

I collected the accounts of dozens of teachers. Obviously, this isn't an exhaustive list and it isn't a study! It's what teachers on the ground in some states are experiencing. And it's easy to see why so many in our profession are so frightened this year.

Here's the list:

There are currently open schools in the US that are being hailed as "successful" that have:

▪️no safety protocols at all besides contact cleaning, in some districts
▪️some districts with no mask mandate
▪️classes in windowless rooms, some with full classes of 20-30