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Jason Antic
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Obsessively pursuing the perfection of image and video colorization/restoration using deep learning. Creator of DeOldify.

Ocean Beach, San Diego
deoldify.ai
Joined January 2010

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    1. Jason Antic‏ @citnaj 20 Dec 2019
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      1/ I’ve thought for many years that strong verbal skills probably contribute to strong coding skills. “Code should read like a book!” was something a mentor told me that really stuck. Perhaps surprisingly- I’m not great with math- especially linear algebra of all things.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1208079432373563392 …

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      François CholletVerified account @fchollet
      Reading well-factored code feels like reading a concise, clearly articulated essay. It's a joy. Meanwhile, reading convoluted, laborious code feels like reading an incoherent rant.
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    2. Paul‏ @pastaduck 20 Dec 2019
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      Not great with maths? This statement blows my mind a bit. I mean, Im guessing you understand the below shenanigans?pic.twitter.com/U2hEbAfBoT

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    3. Jason Antic‏ @citnaj 20 Dec 2019
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      I’m motivated to point all this out because I think the importance of math prerequisites is a bit overemphasized and might be keeping a lot of otherwise talented people from giving the fields a try.

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    4. Paul‏ @pastaduck 20 Dec 2019
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      Linear algebra and calculus an important pre requisite in your opinion? Or do you reckon you can get pretty far just by applying and building upon code in the wild.

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    5. Jason Antic‏ @citnaj 20 Dec 2019
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      1/ I don’t think either are required and agree with @fastdotai that algebra suffices. The core concepts from linear algebra and calculus that are most useful to know are very easy to get the basic gist on quickly (derivatives and matrix multiplication).

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    6. Jason Antic‏ @citnaj 20 Dec 2019
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      2/ My personal approach to figuring stuff out really boils down to a combination of leaning heavily on experimentation, holding all ideas of how things as temporary and subject to change, sprinkle in cross pollination from other domains/papers, and good old fashioned problem

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    7. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 20 Dec 2019
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      Replying to @citnaj @pastaduck @fastdotai

      Hmm, I'd say a solid understanding of linear algebra and calculus are required; it saves time in the long run to be able to identify what math is decoration and what is essential. Having access to lower level building blocks also allows for faster understanding, recall.

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    8. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 21 Dec 2019
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      Replying to @sir_deenicus @citnaj and

      The risk of taking a code heavy approach, and I see this a lot, is you end up thinking in terms of frameworks instead of concepts. For example, rather than decomposing tasks in terms of Pytorch functions, or worse/higher--BERT--you ask, what is self-attention really doing?

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    9. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 21 Dec 2019
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      How is a Transformer simulating a graph? How can I build a language model with random vectors yet respect word order? Being able to lean on say, linear algebra really helps a lot. Problem is math is taught as if you have to be smart instead of something which makes you smarter.

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    10. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 21 Dec 2019
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      I know there are a lot of people who like math because they like puzzles and are clever and math is optimized for them. But I hate puzzles; I like math because I get to lean on a thousand year old knowledge base of solved problems. It's sort of a type system for thinking.

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      Jason Antic‏ @citnaj 21 Dec 2019
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      Now see on that last idea of it being a type system for thinking.... I’ve called mathematical notation “a really shitty language” in the sense that there’s a whole bunch of overloads of the same one (one!) character symbols and it fails at expressing algorithms effectively.

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        2. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 21 Dec 2019
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          I completely agree (I also think probability theory is the worst offender by far; in papers, this crops up with Expectation notation a lot, often not even consistent throughout same paper). It's understandable given its age but hostile to learners & should def be improved.

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        3. Deen Kun A.‏ @sir_deenicus 21 Dec 2019
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          An example of what I mean by augmenting is: I've sometimes found myself needing to work out possible combinations. Most who don't know math struggle to do this while all I had to do was work out what type of permutation calculation applied. It's not at all that I was smarter!

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