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Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by MAXPOOL on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:06AM (#40974756)
There are many others that are better.

1/ The Annotated Transformer Attention is All You Need http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

2/ Transformers from Scratch https://e2eml.school/transformers.html

3/ Andrej Karpathy has really good series of intros: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY GPT with Andrej Karpathy: Part 1 https://medium.com/@kdwa2404/gpt-with-andrej-karpathy-part-1...

4/ 3Blue1Brown: But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M Attention in transformers, visually explained | Chapter 6, Deep Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc Full 3Blue1Brown Neural Networks playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_6700...

Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by rvnx on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @06:28AM (#40975174)
In addition, these websites are totally free.

The website listed here:

> I consider requests for full commercial use of all content on this site (and the github repository). For a complete buyout of all content rights, the cost is €10,000,000. > I’d like to ask you what problems you have by that I keep on having the copyright of my document.

+ no commercial-use without paying 20% royalty.

So fairly expensive for a Keras tutorial.

Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by bitmaks on Saturday July 20, 2024 @07:00PM (#41020822)
I think that's pretty obviously a joke, no?
Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by mr_puzzled on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:09AM (#40975416)
Slightly off topic: I'm interested in taking part in the Vesuvius challenge[0], but I don't have a background in ML, just a regular web developer. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get started? I planned to get some background on practical ML by working through Karpathy's Zero to Hero series along with the Understanding Deep Learning book. Would that be enough or anything else I should learn? I plan to understand the existing solutions to last year's prize and then pick a smaller sub challenge.

[0] https://scrollprize.org/

Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by trybackprop on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:19AM (#40976313)
I made a list of all the free resources I used to study ML and deep learning to become an ML engineer at FAANG, so I think it'll be helpful to follow these resources: https://www.trybackprop.com/blog/top_ml_learning_resources (links in the blog post)

Fundamentals Linear Algebra – 3Blue1Brown's Essence of Linear Algebra series, binged all these videos on a one hour train ride visiting my parents

Multivariable Calculus – Khan Academy's Multivariable Calculus lessons were a great refresher of what I had learned in college. Looking back, I just needed to have reviewed Unit 1 – intro and Unit 2 – derivatives.

Calculus for ML – this amazing animated video explains calculus and backpropagation

Information Theory – easy-to-understand book on information theory called Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction.

Statistics and Probability – the StatQuest YouTube channel

Machine Learning Stanford Intro to Machine Learning by Andrew Ng – Stanford's CS229, the intro to machine learning course, published their lectures on YouTube for free. I watched lectures 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13, and I skipped the rest since I was eager to move onto deep learning. The course also offers a free set of course notes, which are very well written.

Caltech Machine Learning – Caltech's machine learning lectures on YouTube, less mathematical and more intuition based

Deep Learning Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero Series – Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher who graduated with a Stanford PhD and led Tesla AI for several years, released an amazing series of hands on lectures on YouTube. highly highly recommend

Neural networks – Stanford's CS231n course notes and lecture videos were my gateway drug, so to speak, into the world of deep learning.

Transformers and LLMs Transformers – watched these two lectures: lecture from the University of Waterloo and lecture from the University of Michigan. I have also heard good things about Jay Alammar's The Illustrated Transformer guide

ChatGPT Explainer – Wolfram's YouTube explainer video on ChatGPT

Interactive LLM Visualization – This LLM visualization that you can play with in your browser is hands down the best interactive experience with an LLM.

Financial Times' Transformer Explainer – The Financial Times released a lovely interactive article that explains the transformer very well.

Residual Learning – 2023 Future Science Prize Laureates Lecture on residual learning.

Efficient ML and GPUs How are Microchips Made? – This YouTube video by Branch Education is one of the best free educational videos on the internet, regardless of subject, but also, it's the best video on understanding microchips.

CUDA – My FAANG coworkers acquired their CUDA knowledge from this series of lectures.

TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing – 2023 lectures on efficient ML techniques online.

Chip War – Chip War is a bestselling book published in 2022 about microchip technology whose beginning chapters on the invention of the microchip actually explain CPUs very well

Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by mr_puzzled on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @09:50AM (#40976608)
Wow, thanks for the links to all the resources. Lot of interesting stuff for me to learn!
Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by SebFender on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:25AM (#40975513)
oh! 2/ recommendation is an absolute masterpiece of simplicity and effectiveness - cheers for that!
Re:The Engineer's Guide to Deep Learning: Understanding the ... by srush on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @08:36AM (#40975952)
These slides from Lucas Beyer are pretty nice. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZXFIhYczos679r70Yu8v...