Fabian Blaicher

AI, WTG, Shipamax

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

So cool to see see Stopa from my AI course deploy his own GPT-2 https://t.co/TdwBzzk5t5 - is GPT-3 next? @instant_db @karpathy

[Vasili Shynkarenka @flreln]

Launching a “train your own LLM” course next week with @fb_ldn! So excited about this one ☺️

One-liner: deeply understand how LLMs work by training one from scratch based on Karpathy’s nanochat, in a small group of technical founders/engineers, guided by an AI/ML expert — all in 3 weeks!

Basically we realized that Feynman was right and you can’t fully understand something until you create (or recreate) it; hence this course.

We will cover:

* what’s an LLM
* what are tokens, embeddings, activation functions
* what’s a transformer, what is attention, how it works
* what data an LLM is trained on, where this data comes from
* what training means (finding weights for neurons to activate)
* what is loss, why it improves with training
* what is fine-tuning
* what evals mean, how to evaluate an LLM after training

By the end of 3 weeks, you’ll have trained a gpt2-lvl LLM from scratch and acquired an intuitive + first-principles understanding of how these models are built & trained, and what their limitations are

Logistics: 3 live lectures (1hr each) + 3 office hours + async homework, small group of ~10 technical founders, myself and @fb_ldn as instructors (Fabian has an AI & ML background, co-founded Shipamax W17 and exited to WiseTech Global)

DM if interested!

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@a16z Jenna & I (exited YC founders, also married) have also been removing our household admin using an agent called Hermo (https://t.co/LZXQnqZOBL). We’ve now opened Hermo up (currently in private launch) for others who want less mental load without having to set up anything technical

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@jessegenet Jenna & I (exited YC founders, also married) have also been removing our household admin using an agent called Hermo (https://t.co/LZXQnqZOBL). We’ve now opened Hermo up (currently in private launch) for others who want less mental load without having to set up anything technical

[Matt Mireles @mattmireles]

Now you can hold the beating heart of an AI in your hands, on your laptop.

You can teach the sand to think.
You can watch it as it learns.
https://t.co/WWK7F5Vllc

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@heynavtoor This is actually not surprising if you look at how LLMs are trained.

[Matt Mireles @mattmireles]

Introducing...
Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for  Apple Silicon

- LoRA fine-tunning toolkit for Gemma LLM
- runs locally on macOS via PyTorch and Metal
- streams data from Google Cloud to your machine
- fine-tune on audio, image and text
- easy-to-use CLI wizard

If you want to fine-tune the new Gemma 4 on text, images, or audio without renting an H100 or copying a terabyte of data to your laptop, this is the only toolkit that does it all on Apple Silicon.

[Tyler @tyler_agg]

I built a simple internal chatbot that answers your team's SOPs and FAQs using your existing Google Drive docs

in the walkthrough, I show:
– how it finds the right doc for any question
– how your team can “@” specific files (like in Slack)
– how to set it up and share it with your team in minutes

reply “chatbot” and I’ll send the full video + code (must be following)

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@MacroAlf It's not about bailing out SVB. It's about bailing out startup employees and the all supporting industries.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Congrats @xiaojenna, @fb_ldn and the entire @shipamax (YC W17) team!

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

Masters of Doom - super exciting book for anyone interested in the history of id software, @ID_AA_Carmack and the greatest games of all time Commander Keen, Doom and Quake

[Hamza Tahir @htahir111]

We raised $2.7 million to an #opensource #mlops framework for production-ready ML pipelines! Check out @zenml_io with our new README and docs! Give us a star and run your first pipeline today! So excited! https://t.co/njzGOS3bQu

[Simon White @simonwhiteio]

What happened to all the MEAN/MERN stack devs that used to scream about MongoDB being a superior db to Postgres for every use case because “Postgres isn’t web scale”?

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@British_Airways is it possible to get refunds for cancelled flights, please? COVID as excuse for not getting support via phone or chat is not acceptable anymore - it started February last year!

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@HelloFreshUK I got a text message that I'll get another delivery even though I cancelled via chat. Your support bot is also ... not able to handle this

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

Loved discussing some of the latest topics from ICDAR 2021 in our Shipamax research group. If you want to be at the forefront of cutting-edge machine learning you can never stop learning :) I'm always humbled by the brain-power of our team.

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@BulbUK I hope you are joking "we have managed to keep this price increase to 8.2%" Imagine anything else having a price increase like that?

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

What's next @shipamax ? https://t.co/ubX2PRVdk6

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

@benedictevans Very sad that these books are top-sellers

[Fabian Blaicher @fb_ldn]

The UK should take the lead to push the legal acceptance of digital documents
https://t.co/Appop3ySdw