Posted by sgiannopoulos 17 hours ago
If you're truly going to build your own model (and commit to the cost of that), then video tutorials will not cut it.
And if you don't really, then I wonder if this is really the best style of conveying the information you'd be interested in?
I mean I might be wrong and maybe this helps emerging players or something like that, but to me it is more likely that this is more of a monetisation strategy of a personal brand. Living off selling to people that think they _should_ but then in the end don't.
It's also not a bad foundation for people who want to understand how these things are trained and work.
some people enjoy learning how the tech works
Maybe because they don't want to be an "emerging player" or something, they only want to understand how a new technology that is changing the world works and prefer to learn by doing.
If Sebastian is doing it by its personal brand, he really deserves it. I would trust him because I know he is a reference on his area of knowledge and I know he is because he shares his knowledge instead of only making fancy talks.
It's a critique of the people and the lack of substance. But not of the author. The author is highly capable.
That makes no sense. It's like saying if you want an engineering degree, going to lectures will not cut it. Of course not, you have to do the homework and projects too.
Something is off here. It indeed makes no sense
The target audience of this is for people that like to _think_ they're doing stuff by paying for it, to then not do anything.
It's a purchase of an identity, basically.
Which.. I guess is fine as something to cover Sebastian's expenses to enable him to keep delivering this free stuff. If you want to take money from someone, taking from this group is likely the most ethical thing to do.
What's next? Are you going to give us your opinion of music genres you don't ever listen to? And tell us who should listen to them too, I suppose.
How do you think people learn to build/train models? It comes down from the sky?
My core point I think is "first principles or nothing", but, thinking about what you said, I could potentially be off there.
I might be lacking the connection to and understanding of academia and how research and work gets done there. Maybe it actually isn't possible to do this work that way.
I doubt it. Strongly. But this is a valid counterpoint. (Which I had to kinda come up with myself, but anyway)
He is covering expenses. Probably barely.
It seems that you want to oppose something really badly today, but you're struggling to find something that makes sense for more than 5 minutes.
There are genuinely people who enjoy learning how something works by doing smaller scale versions of it themselves. This site happens to have a much higher average percentage of them than most other places.