KDnuggets

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It is an annual tradition for Xavier Amatriain to write a year-end retrospective of advances in AI/ML, and this year is no different. Gain an understanding of the important developments of the past year, as well as insights into what expect in 2020.

Artificial Intelligence 118

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Machine Learning 118

Mlearning.ai

JUNE 7, 2023

In retrospect, we were slightly ahead of our time because of what came next. As I write this, the bert-base-uncasedmodel on HuggingFace has been downloaded over 53 million times in the last month alone! billion parameters, and then GPT-3 arrived in 2020 with a whopping 175 billion parameters!! GPT-2 released with 1.5

Natural Language Processing 52

Natural Language Processing AI AI ML 52

Hacker News

JULY 12, 2023

In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. But since 2020, I’ve noticed how little candid writing there is about paths to the VPE role or what the job is really like.* I’ll save writing about those for my post-IPO Honeycomb screenplay.)

Database 117

Database 117

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here’s Spenser Skates ’s (co-founder and CEO of Amplitude) hard-won lesson: “We spent about a year building, when in retrospect, we should have spent half that time talking to customers. To our surprise, users started writing to us asking, ‘Can we pay for this?’

Analytics 181

Analytics Analytics Data Analyst 181

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And I spent much of the summer of 1972 writing my own (unseen by anyone else for 30+ years) Concise Directory of Physics that included a rather stiff page about energy, mentioning entropy—along with the heat death of the universe. For a couple of months I didn’t look seriously at the book.

Machine Learning 158

Machine Learning Machine Learning Algorithm Analytics 158