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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 5d

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 5d

Each certification comes with a curated set of recommended free and paid training to help you prepare, so you can build confidence and prove your expertise.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 5d

AI isn’t going anywhere, and neither should your skills.

Do you know where the gaps are in your AI knowledge?

NVIDIA already offers certifications in Generative AI and LLMs & Multimodal Generative AI, and now they are raising the bar with two new certifications: Agentic AI and Generative AI LLMs.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 16d

Love these charts showing the efficiency boundaries...

Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 19d

Spent the day getting local models running on my laptop and hooking up Aider to it.

(Some might find it interesting that AI was useless in helping me do this. Needed to use old-fashioned sleuthing skills.)

(Nor is this documented anywhere that I could find.)

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 22d

Funny that the pelican looks like it crashed

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 28d

It’s a strange moment as an author. On one hand, validating that our work has real value in this new AI economy. On the other, frustrating that consent wasn’t part of the process.

Let's see what happens and how much of this $60k I actually receive...

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · 28d

By my calculation, @anthropic.com owes me around $60,000.

There was a recent settlement where Anthropic is paying authors $3,000 per book that they illegally acquired and used for their training data.

I've written a few books and can find almost 20 of mine in their stolen content.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Loved adding "Ancombe's Quintet" to my curve fitting exercise in my class this week.

Thanks Carl McBride Ellis, PhD

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm teaching two Pandas courses this week.

Here's a "whiteboard" from one of them.

Looks like I need to correct it now as @pola.rs spans from small to big data now!

Congrats to Ritchie Vink and team!

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 3

This post caused me to read the candidate statements. Though I don't think Franz could ever win, I do find his ideas interesting (and a change would be somewhat refreshing, though perhaps not this). And he was one of the few candidates who had concrete goals. Most of them were very ambiguous.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Whoops. I just did an online pandas training...

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Did I say that?

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really busy teaching recently.

This week I'm teaching two Pandas/data analytics courses.

Here's a drawing I made during last week's ML course.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here's a drawing I made during my course yesterday to help students remember the difference between precision and recall. What do you think of it?

(As always, follow me for more insights on Python, tabular data science, and AI applications. And if your team needs help with these tools, reach out.)

Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Can’t AI just solve ML problems for me?”

Again, sometimes. But without an understanding of the fundamentals, you can’t sanity-check the output. And trust me, AI goes off the rails more often than you’d think. (Ask me how I know…)

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Now, I often get asked: “Can’t AI just replace ML?”

The honest answer: sometimes. But it’s usually more expensive, slower, and often delivers worse performance.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm teaching a machine learning class this week.

One of my favorite parts of teaching is helping technical folks not just learn the concepts, but also see how they apply directly to their own domains.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 26

What do you think of my newest shirt?

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 19

In this video, I discuss lighting, cameras, (Insta360) webcams, and teleprompters.

Images below show my recreation of 90% of folks' camera setup and mine.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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How I Use an Insta360 Link with Teleprompter

YouTube video by Matt Harrison

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 19

One unique feature of my office is a teleprompter. I use it for:

Looking in the eyes during Zoom calls
Live teaching
Recording courses

My primary goal is to present myself professionally and provide my students with the best possible experience.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 19

Folks often ask me what I do for camera/lighting.

I'm not a videographer, lighting, or sound specialist. Yet, I've been in a couple of studios and cherry-picked ideas that minimize the drag on my environment, allowing me to complete the work I need to do as efficiently as possible.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 19

Optimize your environment.

I've spent a lot of time optimizing my environment for the type of work I do. "Your video quality and background look great" is a common piece of unsolicited feedback.

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Matt Harrison @dunder-matt.bsky.social · Aug 18

I get a lot of questions about my office video and teleprompter setup.

Here is a video that shows what I use and how I use it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG-H...

I used an @insta360official.bsky.social x5 to film this

How I Use an Insta360 Link with Teleprompter

YouTube video by Matt Harrison

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