10/18/24: View and discuss chapter 5 video

  Machine Learning Study Group

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 Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda & Minutes  (134^th meeting, Oct. 18, 2024)

• Announcements, updates, questions, etc.
• MM brought up a free faculty workshop series leading to certification from NVIDIA. See https://events.nvidia.com/faculty-development-virtual-workshops-higher-ed. DB has forwarded a link to this group's members.
  
• Congratulations to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton -- who are now acclaimed physicists! Https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/. We can put that on our list of readings to evaluate and perhaps read through.
  
• From an email: "The Provost has a team participating in AAC&U's AI Institute on AI Pedagogy in the Curriculum this year (see links below).  I. U. is the representative from DCSTEM. The Provost's office would also like each college to form an ad hoc Committee on AI Pedagogy in the Curriculum that would meet ~monthly with our AI Institute representative."
• Here are the latest on readings and viewings
• We can work on chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
• We can work through chapter 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlx5fFNoYc
• We can work through chapter 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Jl0dxWQs8
  
• We can evaluate https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10718663 for reading & discussion.
• Computer scientists win Nobel prize in physics! Https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/popular-physicsprize2024-2.pdf got a evaluation of 5.0 for a detailed reading.
  
• Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
• Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
• Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
• Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
  
• LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.