Jeremy Howard

@jeremyphoward

🇦🇺 Co-founder: , Masks4All; Research: , ,

Brisbane/Queensland, Australia
fast.ai
Joined August 2010
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    21 Aug 2020

    Today is ’s biggest day in our four year history. We are releasing our new course, fastai v2, fastcore, fastscript, fastgpu, and the official launch of the book. 1/

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    25 minutes ago

    "Living with COVID" is a dangerously benign sounding phrase. It really means choosing to live with an epidemic. Coronavirus cases are spiking in Europe as temperatures drop and vaccine immunity wanes. Is the future of COVID-19 seasonal? via

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    12 hours ago

    What a cool project! Plus the code is available and there is a step by step walkthrough in the Jupyter NB 🤩 Not sure how it is possible, but the blog post is even better 😁 Model training is done with ! What a treasure! Added to my reading list.

    Real time running of the Classifier on my Webcam
    I used Deep Learning to create a Real Time Sign Language Classifier that runs on the webcam. The whole project is done from scratch. You can find all the code in my github repo: Here is a blog post on the same topic: : 😃😃
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    4 hours ago

    For you folks using blurr to train your transformers, I'd love to both highlight your work, know what didn't work, and hear what you like/didn't like so as to prioritize improvements. Post links to your work in the comments if you are so inclined.

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    8 hours ago

    Conducting a self-experiment, based on previous experience. Is it faster for me to grasp a new library by: - Digging through the source code and reading examples - Converting the source code via and toying with notebooks 👀

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    17 hours ago

    Wherever you are in the world, whatever the govt rules, whatever your vax status, whatever age you are, if there's COVID-19 in your community please wear a mask. Reasons to be optimistic in Australia, but the pandemic not over.

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    23 hours ago

    Many policy makers & pundits seem to be ignoring: - risk of breakthroughs - LongCovid from breakthroughs - risk of reinfection - LongCovid from reinfections - LongCovid in kids - immunocompromised people - ventilation & air filtration - that mass disability is bad for economy

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    Nov 17

    If you are hungry to learn PyTorch and you have finished the deep learning specialization by Andrew Ng or any other introductory ML/DL course, here is my top recommendation: ✅ Complete the deep learning tutorial by :

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    Nov 16

    Visualising the 3rd dose offer. Using 4-week case prevalences per 100k (ONS), UK unvaccinated adults currently face an annualised risk of a Delta case of ~25%. Applying UKHSA's recent work on real-world vaccine effectiveness against Delta, you get something like this.

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  10. Nov 16

    If you are concerned that your school or workplace might be unsafe for staff or students, see below for sample letters you can use to exercise your legal right to safe schools and workplaces in Australia.

    Head to our website to access some handy resources, including these sample letters👇🏻 Drafted in consultation w/ a WHS barrister, the letters cite relevant law & will help remind schools of their duty of care to students & school staff.
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  11. Nov 16

    Here's a good Aussie immigration law firm:

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  12. Nov 16

    Here's how to get a global talent visa:

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  13. Nov 16

    Here's how to see whether you qualify for an independent skills visa:

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    Nov 14

    Officially announcing nbagile! With this tool, I aim to help empower folks to use the framework, while also adhering to industry-familiar standards for documentation strings, code formatting, and more! LTAT (pip install nbagile)

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  15. Nov 16

    Australia is the place to be. It's easy for people with strong tech skills to migrate here. Hit me up if you want to know more!

    Proud to announce the Digital Future Initiative in Australia - a A$1B commitment in infrastructure, research, and partnerships to help more Australians access the benefits of technology & lead the next wave of global innovations.
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    Nov 15

    As part of this, we'll be launching our first hub in Australia. We'll be building out a team of local researchers & engineers to help tackle important issues, including conducting basic research & applying research to making advances at Google & across the world.

    Proud to announce the Digital Future Initiative in Australia - a A$1B commitment in infrastructure, research, and partnerships to help more Australians access the benefits of technology & lead the next wave of global innovations.
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    Nov 12

    Gave it a second read through (I had the opportunity to read the first draft a while ago), below you can find a thread of my review, and some bits I enjoyed from it:

    Doing some late night reading of 's book. Thoughts on it can be expected :)
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    Nov 12

    Still surprised to read stories about the labor shortage that make no ties to the millions of people with who are newly unable to work.

    A record 4.4 million workers quit their jobs in September. Job openings ticked down to a still-high 10.4 million.
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    Nov 12

    🧵automation of gov social services (eg food benefits, disability services, unemployment, etc) can be: - implemented with no way to correct errors (software treated as error-free) - smokescreen for policy changes - justify austerity under guise of efficiency - operate at scale 1/

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    Nov 12

    Happy to announce that starting Monday, I will be beginning my role as a Machine Learning Engineer at ! While there, I'll be helping write user-centric API's for the HuggingFace ecosystem, with the aim of empowering folks to use the libraries as best they can

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    Nov 11
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    is my favorite. There are others with more math, or more principles, but has just the right amount and focuses on the practical parts to get you up and running quickly, and is focused on demystifying and prop your morale.

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