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Jujutsu - My workflow
jujutsu
Jujutsu is a relatively new version control tool that is very ergonomic and flexible. The main challenge I found is that both the official documentation and tutorials are…
Aug 1, 2025
Gianluca Rossi
Training Compute-Optimal LLMs
arxiv
In a paper published in 2022, researchers from DeepMind showed how we can extrapolate the ideal model size (N) and pre-training dataset size (D) to achieve thelowest…
Apr 17, 2023
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Why Kaggle is the best way to sharpen your ML skills
kaggle
A recent post on Twitter made me realize many don’t notice the actual value Kaggle brings to the larger ML community and Kagglers.
Jun 19, 2021
Gianluca Rossi
How to become a more effective ML/DL practitioner
deep learning
machine learning
productivity
This article is aimed to any practitioners that wants to become more effective. This is of course just my opinion, but I hope it will help many people struggling to make the…
May 29, 2021
Gianluca Rossi
How to start a career in Data Science
deep learning
machine learning
advice
I’ve been asked this question many times by young practitioners and recent graduates. “
What advice would you give to someone starting a career in Data Science?
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May 28, 2021
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The 1cycle policy
arxiv
In his most recent work, Leslie N. Smith gives extremely useful practical advice on how to train neural networks and tune the most important hyper-parameters. In his…
Oct 28, 2018
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Statistical Rethinking
books
statistics
bayes
After reading the excellent reviews in Amazon, I decided to give it a go to the text-book Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. Long story short, I can’t praise…
Sep 14, 2018
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A brief introduction about Entropy
information-theory
Information Theory is a cornerstone of Machine Learning, yet most Data Science practitioners haven’t been formally trained on it. This blog post is meant to give a brief…
Mar 21, 2018
Gianluca Rossi
Welcome to my blog
news
Welcome to my blog!
Feb 26, 2018
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