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90/30 ML Reading Group: Retrospective - by Lydia Nottingham

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This corner of the SF AI scene is wonderful

To skip to the technical content, head to Section 5. For seven weeks, I ran an ML reading group in San Francisco. Here are 13 things I learned. Cross-context groups can work well In the first week, I was nervous about how more experienced attendees / people who work in ML full-time would find the group. I wanted to keep it open to all backgrounds, & I was on the newer end. I know it’s hard to have great discussions when participants lack context. To this end, I set up a ‘no dumb questions’ room and a ‘prior knowledge assumed’ room. This worked great—for the ‘no dumb questions’ room! No…

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