Things I didn’t understand about starting a company until I tried
No matter how many books you read, it’s a different story when you’ve got skin in the game. Some notes from starting Cholla, a remote team building company, in Summer 2020.
What does GPT-3 mean for AI?
The biggest AI news of 2020 was the success of OpenAI’s monstrous new language model, GPT-3. In this post I summarize why GPT-3 has caused such a splash, before highlighting some consequences for companies building things with AI.
Organizing applied machine learning research
Applied Machine Learning research is a bit different from standard software engineering. This post summarizes some of the things I’ve learned about leading applied ML teams.
Lockdown projects: Corona Calculator, Glass of Wine, and Weather Window
Lockdown in Montreal prompted a spree of building: The Corona Calculator, A Glass of Wine May Help, and Weather Window.
The customer is the enemy
It’s a bit of a cliché, but reading a tiny bit of military strategy can inform your thinking about startups.
Predicting the performance of deep learning models
It’s widely acknowledged that the recent successes of Deep Learning rest heavily upon the availability of huge amounts of data. Vision was the first domain in which the promise of DL was realised, probably because of the availability of large datasets such as ImageNet. The recent surge of simulators for RL further illustrates that as we \[…\]