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Samuel Synthesized
The occasional thoughts of Samuel Gbafa
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A Quick Update
A Quick Update
I’ve recently completed the scholars program at OpenAI and it’s been an amazing place to journey into deep learning. I’ve explored so many…
Samuel Gbafa
Apr 19, 2021
Text Prediction Dataloader
Text Prediction Dataloader
When I was working on my project, I needed to train a transformer on an unsupervised task. In this case the task was text prediction. For…
Samuel Gbafa
Mar 16, 2021
The Artifacts of Language Models
The Artifacts of Language Models
I’ve been reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and have been really enjoying Naval’s perspectives on things. In thinking about how the…
Samuel Gbafa
Feb 2, 2021
Moving from Words to Bytes
Moving from Words to Bytes
I’m long overdue for an update of where I’ve been in my OpenAI journey! While learning about sequence and language models, I’ve been…
Samuel Gbafa
Jan 19, 2021
Greatness cannot be planned
Greatness cannot be planned
First things first, I found a good work cadence as well as a way to track and categorize the topics I’m exploring. There is so much to…
Samuel Gbafa
Nov 9, 2020
Lottery Tickets and Simplified Parameters
Lottery Tickets and Simplified Parameters
After reading The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, I had a few ideas and wanted to capture them to revisit as a possible research direction.
Samuel Gbafa
Oct 27, 2020
Entering a new world
Entering a new world
Reflecting on my last two weeks at OpenAI, it’s been a pretty interesting time! I’m excited to be a part of the Scholars program and to be…
Samuel Gbafa
Oct 25, 2020
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