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Brandon Rohrer is a seasoned data science leader and educator with a rich background in creating robust, efficient machine learning algorithms and tools. With a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, his expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of AI applications — from computer vision and natural language processing to reinforcement learning and robotics. Brandon's career has seen him in Principle-level roles at Microsoft and Facebook. An educator at heart, he also shares his knowledge through detailed tutorials, courses, and his forthcoming book, "How to Train Your Robot."
YT version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ps7ahonRCY
Brandon's links:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsBKTrp45lTfHa_p49I2AEQ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brohrer/
How transformers work:
https://e2eml.school/transformers
Brandon's End-to-End Machine Learning school courses, posts, and tutorials
Free course:
to-end-machine-learning.teachable.com/p/complete-course-library-full-end-to-end-machine-learning-catalog">https://end-to-end-machine-learning.teachable.com/p/complete-course-library-full-end-to-end-machine-learning-catalog
Blog: https://e2eml.school/blog.html
Ziptie: Learning Useful Features [Brandon Rohrer]
https://www.brandonrohrer.com/ziptie
TOC should be baked into the MP3 file now
00:00:00 - Intro to Brandon
00:00:36 - RLHF
00:01:09 - Limitations of transformers
00:07:23 - Agency - we are all GPTs
00:09:07 - BPE / representation bias
00:12:00 - LLM true believers
00:16:42 - Brandon's style of teaching
00:19:50 - ML vs real world = Robotics
00:29:59 - Reward shaping
00:37:08 - No true Scotsman - when do we accept capabilities as real
00:38:50 - Externalism
00:43:03 - Building flexible robots
00:45:37 - Is reward enough
00:54:30 - Optimization curse
00:58:15 - Collective intelligence
01:01:51 - Intelligence + creativity
01:13:35 - ChatGPT + Creativity
01:25:19 - Transformers Tutorial
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