Yacine Mahdid
@yacinelearning
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(neuro/ai) I make technical deep learning tutorials šŗ
Montreal Canada
Joined January 2019
if there is one thing that you must not do is surrender donāt surrender your dreams, your passion, your curiosity or your freedom never
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btw folks just an fyi for people new to the whole ai/ml/dl stuff: machine learning is just a tool donāt get too attached to tools you can be very interested in a tool and really like how some of them work but at the end of the day at work you are there to get the job done
what a journey man already 15,000 real humans looking at my daily thought we read so many papers guys we even coded a whole bunch of ml algo ah the memories remember when I tried to pass as the other yacine and got confused or when you helped me with the bread thing ahhhh
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Iāve been rewatching this interview a few min ago while playing civ6 and a thought emerged when sutton was talking about squirrels the squirrel sparked my interest because this afternoon my wife found a squirrel trapped in her garden net the net was green and the squirrel was
.@RichardSSutton, father of reinforcement learning, doesnāt think LLMs are bitter-lesson-pilled. My steel man of Richardās position: we need some new architecture to enable continual (on-the-job) learning. And if we have continual learning, we don't need a special training
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after extensive market research I decided to launch my new company called āthe yacine match making corporation of canadaā (match-ya for short) dm me your mate preferences and Iāll match-yaā¢ļø with your next spouse payment will be due at the wedding btw
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NEW JERSEY: Get to know MIKIE SHERRILL: āVoted to RAISE taxes by $3,700 āVoted to give ILLEGALS taxpayer-funded healthcare āVoted to CUT the child tax credit And Sherrill has NO idea what to do as Governor. 𤯠Vote AGAINST her on Nov. 4th.
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I got my paper for this weekend folks we are going to figure out how this fish library is able to crank up RL to 1M steps per seconds without spending the equivalent in compute of a small slavic country gdp
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gpu jesus and the compute apostles 10 years before PI singularity
Went to the @nvidia x @PrimeIntellect oss event in SF last night. And, I'm amazed by the energy and the vibe in this community. @willccbb is truly the goat. Guys if you're not building on top of verifiers, do it now!! The conviction comes through when he speaks. It's a good
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my average non-bro yacine follower look like this btw
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as a retired runescape flax plant picker I have to say that I deeply resonated with @jsuarez5341 phd thesis on neural MMO thinking about it I could have automated myself away and recouped about 720h of my childhood back check out the 1h thesis defense here well worth the time
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me supporting the wife in whatever interpersonal issue there is with 0 context because I love that woman
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weighting on this subject with tact because I hate to see two of my education heros butting heads: no math for deep learning. Iām not saying learn it later or use your high school math no. math. at. all. math in machine learning is a psyops from Big Statistics to slow us down
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Iām very impressed by the quality of followers I have not only are they intellectually obviously top percentile of the human population these folks are also very good looking itās incredible
what a journey man already 15,000 real humans looking at my daily thought we read so many papers guys we even coded a whole bunch of ml algo ah the memories remember when I tried to pass as the other yacine and got confused or when you helped me with the bread thing ahhhh
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it's 10h30 PM right now and I'm about to tell my wife all about what I've learned on what truly killed RL in academia until she tell me to sftu
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just had two absolute legends from puffer ai for a 2h interview and boy I'm all puffed up right now two of the most intellectually inspiring people I've met this year we've talked a whole lot about how to make RL env blazing fast and how to save the whole godamn RL field
New followers - my high-perf RL is free + open source in PufferLib. Star the GitHub to support the project! Our rev comes from custom sims, contracted R&D, and extended support packages for companies. More eyes on Puffer means I spend time on OSS and not marketing!
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Check out this nice tutorial video ( https://t.co/n63MxIhaso) from @yacinelearning I also did a live chat with him this morning ā check out the recording ( https://t.co/aQBOPCIBVb) where I answered some questions from Yacine and the audience about our work :)
alright we're live in about 3 min to figure out how the guys manage to make evolutionary strategies works for finetuning LLMs tune in!
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what a journey man already 15,000 real humans looking at my daily thought we read so many papers guys we even coded a whole bunch of ml algo ah the memories remember when I tried to pass as the other yacine and got confused or when you helped me with the bread thing ahhhh
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slowly but surely the canadian forward deployed engineers are being integrated into the core tech infrastructure of the west then and only then will the operation āsyrop dāĆ©rable sur la graisse de binesā commence
life update: graduated from @uwaterloo, moved to sf, and started working @X/@xAI on the core product team!
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I'm on my temu-dwarkesh arc right now folks buckle up
we are going live in ~30 min to chat with our man @yule_gan to ask him the hard questions about evolutionary strategies for LLM finetuning like: - why does it work? - how does it actually work? - no for real why does it work? and other such insightful high IQ questions tune in!
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we are live over there to chat up about evolutionary strategies for LLM finetuning (again):
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