AI Portfolio Podcast

Umar Jamil: AI Research and Models, Learning How to Learn & Technical Content - AI Portfolio Podcast

Mark Moyou, PhD Season 1 Episode 22

Machine Learning Youtuber Umar Jamil, His channel has some of the top technical explanations on technical topics related to Gen AI with over 50k followers.

Follow/Connect:
Umar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ujamil/
Mark Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoyou/

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:54 Umar's YouTube Channel
06:10 Umar's Data Science Journey
11:30 Show Your Work
16:35 Pre-Training
20:19 Research Without a PhD
22:22 Lessons Learned as a Research Scientist
23:41 Advice for Technical Creators
25:30 Building
30:17 Hardest Challenges
43:58 Research Papers
49:41 How Language Models Learn
50:48 Coding IDEs
53:19 Choosing a Model
54:50 AI Coding Editors
55:55 Career Optimization Function
57:09 Changing Jobs and Approaching the Job Market
01:00:30 Book Recommendations
01:02:37 Why We Struggle to Finish Things
01:05:15 Career Advice
01:07:26 Coding the Transformer
01:15:27 CLIP Models
01:17:06 Diffusion Models
01:18:22 Autoencoder
01:20:23 Segment Anything Model
01:21:30 Direct Preference Optimization
01:23:30 Multimodal Models
01:26:09 Test-Time Compute
01:27:05 Rapid Round