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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

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Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#11

A little offtopic, but is this something that someone with only webdev experience can get started with?

Getting started with it takes exactly zero experience. Being productive in it does, but that's unrelated to the starting point, and shouldn't discourage you, if you really want to do it.

There are several open courses, online.

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#13

Wonderful! Just went through the GPT video the other day and it was great. Andrej has a talent for pedagogy via simplification.

Which GPT Video?

It can be found on the sites home page.

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#14
I'm doing an ML apprenticeship [1] these weeks and Karpathy's videos are part of it. We've been deep down into them. I found them excellent. All concepts he illustrates are crystal clear in his mind (even though they are complicated concepts themselves) and that shows in his explanations.

Also, the way he builds up everything is magnificent. Starting from basic python classes, to derivatives and gradient descent, to micrograd [2] and then from a bigram counting model [3] to makemore [4] and nanoGPT [5]

[1]: https://www.foundersandcoders.com/ml

[2]: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd

[3]: https://github.com/karpathy/randomfun/blob/master/lectures/m...

[4]: https://github.com/karpathy/makemore

[5]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#15

A little offtopic, but is this something that someone with only webdev experience can get started with?

Yes. The journey will teach you everything you need to know or it'll kill you. The likelihood of that happening here or any path in IT is negligible at best. So just show up everyday and collect more fuck ups than the next guy (or your former self).

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#16

I'm doing an ML apprenticeship [1] these weeks and Karpathy's videos are part of it. We've been deep down into them. I found them excellent. All concepts he illustrates are crystal clear in his mind (even though they are complicated concepts themselves) and that shows in his explanations. Also, the way he builds up everything is magnificent. Starting from basic python classes, to derivatives and gradient descent, to…

Do you run the code as you watch?

I’ve been simply watching them on a palm from a hammock and I’m worried I’m not getting the full experience.

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#17
post #8

What I appreciate about karpathy's videos is that it doesn't make things any more complicated than they need to be. Simple, engineering language is used. No gatekeeping! It's reassuring, and lets everyone know that anyone can do it. Thanks karpathy!

I just don’t know what he means by logits. Everything else seems like straightforward language.

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#18
post #16

I'm doing an ML apprenticeship [1] these weeks and Karpathy's videos are part of it. We've been deep down into them. I found them excellent. All concepts he illustrates are crystal clear in his mind (even though they are complicated concepts themselves) and that shows in his explanations. Also, the way he builds up everything is magnificent. Starting from basic python classes, to derivatives and gradient descent, to…

Do you run the code as you watch? I’ve been simply watching them on a palm from a hammock and I’m worried I’m not getting the full experience.

I've found that actually running the code has been very beneficial in understanding. This, along with reasoning for each line of code and spending a lot of time with the video paused and discussing and explaining to each other what we understood.

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

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post #17
post #8

What I appreciate about karpathy's videos is that it doesn't make things any more complicated than they need to be. Simple, engineering language is used. No gatekeeping! It's reassuring, and lets everyone know that anyone can do it. Thanks karpathy!

I just don’t know what he means by logits. Everything else seems like straightforward language.

Having not watched the series, I can only assume he means logit as in a probability function from 0 to 1

https://deepai.org/machine-learning-glossary-and-terms/logit....

Re: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

#20
This is really cool and I am so glad my math teacher was a hard ball and I still remember some Calculus.

edit: Python really was/is made for this numbers/calculation/visualization thing. Kinda kicking myself now for not investing more in it and sticking with PHP, although PHP has its merits when building different things, Python is a beast with numbers.

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