Python 3.11 is out! 🎉

This is one of the most exciting releases in a while, including significant speed upgrades and better error messages.

Here's what's new:

Beyond grateful to have had a front-row seat at one of the fastest-growing & most innovative AI companies in the world.

Learned so much from the entire world-class team & especially Federico Pascual <--Pssst, Fed consultants for startups when he has bandwidth! 🔥

Learned so much about:

🎯LinkedIn targeting
✍️Pitching stories to journalists
🔍Optimizing content for AI topics
💡Validating ideas as soon as possible

Created an ML Experts Series featuring leading ML Experts like MMitchell, Lewis Tunstall & Dr. Sasha Luccioni 💻🌎✨:

huggingface.co/blog/meg-mitch…

AP News BLOOM story by the brilliant Matt O'Brien: apnews.com/article/techno… Featuring Teven Le Scao!

^ This got picked up everywhere from ABC to local newspapers 🤯:

apnews.com/article/techno…

denverpost.com/2022/07/23/art…

Met & spent time with open-source legends like Niels Rogge Saulnier Lucile Omar Sanseviero Matthew Carrigan Victor Sanh Thomas Macaulay Lysandre Sylvain Lesage João Gante oldmanandthe.eth Michael Benayoun Zach Mueller Sanchit Gandhi & Nate Raw <-a trending dev on github rn, nbd 🏆

Wrote & Published BERT 101: hf.co/bert-101

A top-performing post on HF, SEO is a beautiful thing!

^ Which seemed to outperform the actual Hugging Face Experts Vid lol: youtube.com/watch?v=a4yYsx…

Shot & edited a silly Hugging Face Experts Movie Trailer😂: youtube.com/watch?v=bmMUrb…

Created an ML Director Insights [Series]
huggingface.co/blog/ml-direct…

Might also rank #1 for 'ML Directors' 🤗

What is BLOOM? My favorite articles to learn more: towardsdatascience.com/bloom-is-the-m… by Alberto Romero

technologyreview.com/2022/07/12/105… by Melissa Heikkilä

or techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/a-y… by Kyle Wiggers to learn more 🙌

'In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.“ — Shunryu Suzuki

Not it effing can't. This headline is breathtakingly irresponsible.

h/t the specter of surveillance 👻

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ML Friends: How would you explain 'parameters' to a 10yr old?

We are currently working on annotating this, but I felt it was too beautiful not to share—even unlabeled.

This is a scatterplot of 1% of the dataset BigScience Research Workshop 🌸BLOOM🌸 was trained on; ~6M documents colored by language.

Can you guess the languages?

Why why why are all AI chatbots (and most assistive robots) women?

Many computer vision classes teach theory and algorithms 🙂

BUT they don't cover how to build an ML application end-to-end ☹️

I've put together a practical tutorial on how to build an image classifier, from datasets to deployment!

Check it out: colab.research.google.com/drive/1b50WxRu…

'Language models cannot understand language or meaning. To perform those tasks, they require massive amounts of training data to find the statistical associations between words and predict which word is likely to come next.' Nitasha Tiku on BigScience

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…