Luis Serrano + Josh Starmer Q&A Livestream!!!
YouTube livestream hosts Luis Serrano and Josh Starmer reunited for a global Q&A, discussing travel, upcoming conferences, and answering viewer questions about learning machine learning. They shared practical learning strategies: embrace being stuck, skim broadly to build domain vocabulary, drill down into key terms, study implementations and code, and work through simple examples to reconcile theory and practice. They also highlighted recent news — the physics Nobel Prize awarded to AI pioneers Jeff Hinton and John Hopfield — and promoted Serrano’s new book. The session was interactive with viewers from multiple countries and included personal anecdotes about persistence in mastering technical topics.
Human Stories in AI: Abbas Merchant@Matics Analytics
Abbas Merchant, founder and CEO of Matics Analytics, traced his journey from dropping out of school to join his family’s electronics retail and distribution business, through a return to formal education, to ultimately founding an AI-and-analytics company. Confronted by the...
Luis Serrano + Jay Alammar + Josh Starmer Q&A Livestream!!!
AI educators Luis Serrano, Jay Alammar and Josh Starmer held a live Q&A discussing the origins and teaching philosophies behind their popular channels. Each described starting from niche, workplace-focused tutorials—Josh teaching statistics to genetics colleagues, Serrano and Alammar producing course...
Coding a ChatGPT Like Transformer From Scratch in PyTorch
In a hands‑on tutorial, StatQuest walks through building a decoder‑only Transformer (the architecture behind ChatGPT) from scratch in PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning. The video covers creating a minimal token vocabulary and dataset for two prompt–response pairs, mapping tokens to IDs,...
