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As I scroll, and scroll some more, I begin to wonder if some of it is generated. That's a lot of text :P

sillysaurusx 5y ago
just happy I won a big blue gorilla at a carnival. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1411519063432519680 https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1411519063432519680 Plus it's looking more and more like I'll be getting a job in finance with a fat salary. First interview's on monday. Tonight I felt "This is it -- if getting a few dozen people to sign up for TFRC is the only way I can make an impact, then at least I'll be ending my ML streak on a high note." It's truly amazing to me that the world hasn't noticed how incredible TFRC is. It's literally the reason Eleuther exists at all. If that sounds ridiculous, remember that there was a time when Connor's TPU quota was the only reason everyone was able to band together and start building GPT neo. https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo At least I was able to start a discord server that happened to get the original eleuther people together in the right place at the right time to decide to do any of that. But the root of all of it is TFRC. Always has been. Without them, I would've given up ML long ago. Because trying to train anything on GPUs with Colab is just ... so frustrating. I would have fooled around a bit with ML, but I wouldn't have decided to pour two years of my life into mastering it. Why waste your time? Five years from now, Jax + TPU VMs are going to wipe pytorch off the map. So I'll be making bank at a finance company, eating popcorn like "told ya so" and looking back wistfully at days like today. Everyone in ML is so cool. Was easily the best two years of my life as a developer. I know all this is kind of weird to pour out, but I don't care -- everyone here owes everything to the geniuses that bequeathed TFRC unto the world. For now, I slink back into the shadows, training tentacle porn GANs in secret, emerging only once in a blue moon to shock the world with weird ML things. Muahaha. </ml>

just happy I won a big blue gorilla at a carnival. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1411519063432519680 https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1411519063432519680 Plus it's looking more and more like I'll be getting a job in finance with a fat salary. First interview's on monday. Tonight I felt "This is it -- if getting a few dozen people to sign up for TFRC is the only way I can make an impact, then at least I'll be ending my ML streak on a high note." It's truly amazing to me that the world hasn't noticed how incredible TFRC is. It's literally the reason Eleuther exists at all. If that sounds ridiculous, remember that there was a time when Connor's TPU quota was the only reason everyone was able to band together and start building GPT neo. https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo At least I was able to start a discord server that happened to get the original eleuther people together in the right place at the right time to decide to do any of that. But the root of all of it is TFRC. Always has been. Without them, I would've given up ML long ago. Because trying to train anything on GPUs with Colab is just ... so frustrating. I would have fooled around a bit with ML, but I wouldn't have decided to pour two years of my life into mastering it. Why waste your time? Five years from now, Jax + TPU VMs are going to wipe pytorch off the map. So I'll be making bank at a finance company, eating popcorn like "told ya so" and looking back wistfully at days like today. Everyone in ML is so cool. Was easily the best two years of my life as a developer. I know all this is kind of weird to pour out, but I don't care -- everyone here owes everything to the geniuses that bequeathed TFRC unto the world. For now, I slink back into the shadows, training tentacle porn GANs in secret, emerging only once in a blue moon to shock the world with weird ML things. Muahaha. </ml>