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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon. (image credit Flora Graham (floragraham.bsky.social)) #EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole

TLDR: Announcing 🌟COMPOSER🌟, a PyTorch trainer for efficient training *algorithmically*. Train 2x-4x faster on standard ML tasks, a taste of what's coming from .. Star it, 𝚙𝚒𝚙 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚌𝚖𝚕, contribute, be efficient! github.com/mosaicml/compo… Thread:

We've shared great research before, but reproducing methods from papers is hard. Announcing Composer, our library of ML speedups: github.com/mosaicml/compo…. Train CV models ~4x faster and NLP models ~2x faster at the same accuracy -- with minimal tuning. (1/5)

Having trouble keeping up with arXiv? 🎉 Announcing "Davis Summarizes Papers" 🎉 tl;dr: People kept telling me I should make the ~15 paper summaries I do each week into a newsletter, so I did: dblalock.substack.com Free forever, and you can also read all past posts as a blog

New blog post: mosaicml.com/blog/behind-th… We're setting an up-to-date baseline for semantic segmentation model training: 45.56 mIoU on the ADE20k benchmark in 3.5 hours using 8x NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Next step: develop and release #EfficientML recipes to speed it up!

Just in time for Thanksgiving - we're dropping a new batch of recipes for training image segmentation models. Reduce time-to-train by up to 5.4x, improve quality by up to +4.6 mIoU, and impress everyone at your #efficientML potluck! mosaicml.com/blog/mosaic-im…

today we're announcing our Databricks Mosaic Research x Shutterstock partnership, and a new text-to-image diffusion model: ✨ImageAI!!✨ this model is geared towards enterprise use cases and is trained exclusively on shutterstock's trusted data catalog! databricks.com/company/newsro…

Michael Nielsen The Atlantic It's frustrating how thinking feels like exploring a large idea cave serially with a tiny flashlight. It's a bit shocking how underdeveloped our tooling is in surpassing limitations of thinking / short term memory. Pen & paper was a good first step, haven't taken too many since.

Kinda crazy how much more advice there is on persuading people than on being persuaded. Not just when to buy an argument, but also how to get it to percolate through your models of the world & actually behave as though you'd bought it.