Michael Erasmus

chess + ai
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lead ml engineer @chesscom

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[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@ArmanHezarkhani MLE

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@georgesttock nano

[François Fleuret @francoisfleuret]

23948h of debugging later. Kill me.

[Santiago Víquez @santiviquez]

Last week, in our study group "AI from Scratch", we finished reading "Build a Large Language Model" by Sebastian Raschka.

We voted on what to read next, and "AI Engineering" by @chipro won by a LOT! 🔥

Here are the details:

📅 First Meeting: Sunday, Feb 16th at 2:00 UTC

📖 How it works: During the week, we each read and study a specific chapter independently—this time, Chapter 1. On Sunday, we meet for a 90-minute call where someone presents the chapter, walks through the code, and we all discuss.

🔗 How to join: Join our Discord channel with 1,000+ learners!

https://t.co/J9jhV3RBnN

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@behrouz_ali @mirrokni @threadreaderapp unroll

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

We're entering the golden age of learning. It's still early but I can imagine with these kinds of personal AI tutors the speed at which you can learn new things will just keep increasing.

[elvis @omarsar0]

Gemini 2.0 real-time AI is absolutely wild!

Watch how I use it as an AI research assistant by sharing my screen and asking it about an AI paper.

10x your paper reading skills or just let Gemini summarize key points.

What an incredible time to be alive!

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@OfficialLoganK @pydantic @OpenAI @colinhacks @OfficialLoganK

How do you specify your project/location using the OpenAI SDK?

[Nick Dobos @NickADobos]

Coding interviews should be using ai. If you disagree you literally don’t understand what ai is for

Sure you can use it to fill gaps & find easy answers

More importantly you can use it to accelerate and do much bigger things

Failing to select for this skill will ruin tech co’s

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

This cuts deep...

[Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708]

its the future

[goosewin @Goosewin]

$ hawk tuah

[Simon Willison @simonw]

Conversations about unconventional things to do are a fun way to test an LLM, because the more you dig the more you're inadvertently encouraging it to hallucinate based on some weird and interesting context it's already added to the conversation

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@santiviquez @rasbt I'm interested!

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I think often about Wolfram’s conclusion nearly two years ago that ChatGP shows “that human language (and the patterns of thinking behind it) are somehow simpler and more “law like” in their structure than we thought. ChatGPT has implicitly discovered it.” Seems worth considering

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

This is awesome

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

Are you kidding me? Look at this:

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

Are you kidding me? Look at this:

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

@t3dotgg I switched to Linux a couple of years ago. Same thing happened to me and I lost like 3 days trying to recover. Switched back to a MacBook and haven't looked back since.

[vicki @vboykis]

a machine learning engineer should be able to debug a pydantic validation error, debug an OpenAI completions error, debug model drift, debug Airflow, debug a FastAPI method, debug a Spark dataframe, debug a put to a feature store, specialization is for insects
- Robert Heinlein

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

Me installing all the python packages I need before starting coding on a new project...

[Moose @703Moose]

That’s amazing can I get a bud light please

[Michael Erasmus @michael_erasmus]

Yep, but then you're not even counting college. I always tell people think hard about having kids, it's the most expensive decision you'll make.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Raising two children to the age of 18 now costs over half a million dollars, totaling $576,896, in the US, per Investopedia.