We are opening a Reading Club for ML papers. Who wants to join? 🎓

Submitted by __god_bless_you_ t3_125r4ac in singularity

Hey!

My friend, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Oxford and an MSc graduate from Cambridge, and I (a Backend Engineer), started a reading club where we go through 20 research papers that cover 80% of what matters today

Our goal is to read one paper a week, then meet to discuss it and share knowledge, and insights and keep each other accountable, etc.

I shared it with a few friends and was surprised by the high interest to join.

So I decided to invite you guys to join us as well.

We are looking for ML enthusiasts that want to join our reading clubs (there are already 3 groups).

The concept is simple - we have a discord that hosts all of the “readers” and I split all readers (by their background) into small groups of 6, some of them are more active (doing additional exercises, etc it depends on you.), and some are less demanding and mostly focus on reading the papers.

As for prerequisites, I think its recommended to have at least BSC in CS or equivalent knowledge and the ability to read scientific papers in English.

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If any of you are interested to join please comment below,

And if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know

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Some of the articles on our list:

  • Attention is all you need
  • BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
  • A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search
  • Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations
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zanzenzon t1_je5vqcz wrote

Would love that sweet invite! ☺️

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kirbyi123 t1_je5z6sv wrote

Could a hobbyist join to just listen. Many of the research paper are a little over my head. I would love to listen and learn from those with more experience.

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EnigmaticHam t1_je64lf7 wrote

Cool, most of my experience is in training custom image classification models and deploying on Azure. I would love to listen in.

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DollarStoreMikeBurry t1_je64rru wrote

yeah I would definitely be down! i've been thinking about starting something like this myself too, looks like you guys beat me to it lol

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zeychelles t1_je65nuy wrote

May I join even tho I’m incredibly stupid and I’m just a hobbyist? I’d love to listen!

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PlanetExperience t1_je66rl5 wrote

Another hobbyist who would consider it an honor to hear the thoughts of technical professionals regarding the subject.

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Puzzleheaded-Owl1695 t1_je66sa4 wrote

Count me in brother but hope it isn't necessary to join session all the time because we never know when some urgent house or ofc work comes up, if it's fine by you count me in ✌️

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Frumpagumpus t1_je6bstc wrote

i'm interested and have the aforementioned bs in cs

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MeredithMeow t1_je6ezkq wrote

I'm really interested! is it okay if i just listen as a hobbyiest?

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reibradbury t1_je6f3dw wrote

Hello! I’m interested, would I be able to get the discord invite?

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dwarfarchist9001 t1_je6h41j wrote

I am interested in joining, please send me an invite when you get the chance.

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thepragprog t1_je6jesn wrote

Can I please join as well? I’m a hobbyist as well

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WarProfessional3278 t1_je6mjh0 wrote

I like the idea but you guys should really update that to-read list. Most of these papers are made obsolete in the last year or this.

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Scarlet_pot2 t1_je72830 wrote

I'm interested in listening! I'm a software dev student with a basic/minimal understanding of ML and AI

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justdoitanddont t1_je73xnf wrote

Would love to join. Happy to provide background in a dm if needed.

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gggggggggg5525 t1_je7x4l2 wrote

Chatgpt4 already gave me 10 bullet points of each paper you were going to read, what good is your opinion?

Also say no to commies

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bennie_gee t1_je8c21f wrote

Interested! Recently read the first two. Would love to join!

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CorrectAssistance461 t1_je8rbu3 wrote

Hi i am interest, just few days back starts taking interest in ML, This would he the great way to learn Please take me in

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sguth22 t1_je9ttl8 wrote

Im starting my career in Data Science and would benefit by reading and hearing more advanced people on the subject. Could I Join?

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kotlin_devs t1_jeafyvw wrote

Hey, I just filled out the Google form . When can I expect a response ?

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