My best Twitter content

This is a list of links to some of my best threads. Threads are grouped based on theme and sorted more or less by how I think they should be read.

Intro to Machine Learning

A list of short threads introducing the most relevant concepts in machine learning.

• What is ML? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1442413730147536900

• Types of machine learning problems. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1442776118411530241

• Parametric vs Non-parametric models. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1443138514246414346

• Generative vs Discriminative models. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1443500896919425024

• Choosing the right metric. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1443863279709966346

Mindblowing ideas

On select Mondays I write threads about some of the greatest ideas in AI and computer science in general.

• Language models are one of the hotest topic in machine learning and particularly in NLP. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1440601793415634944

• Generative Adversarial Networks are one of the coolest generative models, especially well-suited for image synthesis. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1439877017248407555

Techy stuff

On select Tuesdays I write about technical stuff, tools, frameworks, and apps that you can use right away.

• AutoML is a practical approach to the progressive automation of the most boring machine learning tasks. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1440369541209493508

• A list of 10 AutoML tools that you can use today. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1513913374010228740

Wisdom

On select Wednesdays I write threads with advice for communication, career progress, and being a nice human being in general.

• Presenting an idea with the Why-What-How framework. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1308776873552420864

• The Vision-Steps-News-Contribution framework for presenting ideas. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1410163990043541505

• Three lessons on the interaction between academia and the industry when creating ML-based solutions. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1541981404359172096

• Tips to improve your technical writing skills that don't require talent or any source of divine inspiration. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1407626631758315526

• Three health habits for grad school that helped me survive my PhD with minimum psicological damage. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1440601793415634944

• My process for making a literature review that doesn't suck and doesn't bore you to death. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1415237162056966144

Theoretical topics

On select Thursdays I write intuitive explanations for theoretical topics in Computer Science.

• Algorithmic complexity allows us to compare algorithms regardless of the tech stack in which they run. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1440964182342610946

• NP-Completenes is the study of the most complex problems in Computer Science. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1453647754362859520

• P vs NP is the question of whether all problems are as easy to solve as to validate.
  https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1451111039207096323

• The halting problem is the most famous undecidable problem in Computer Science.
  https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1537764283475447808

Philosophy of computer science

On select Fridays I write threads about philosophical topics in Computer Science.

• What is intelligence? This is Alan Turing's idea. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1441326567758577665

• Are we living in a simulation? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1451473428733743134

• Can we answer all questions? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1314603266890756096

• How do you know that what you know is true? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1350176180998123525

• The ugly duckling theorem says there's no natural way to cluster objects.
  https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1550466105067524097

• Self-driving cars and the trolley problem. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1372880546381103227

• Would a superintelligence be nice with us? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1317115192090701824

• Mary and the nature of qualia. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1306970447494348805

• Consciousness and your sense of self. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1357797357992243200

Rants

Random stuff I've written on several topics.

• Twitter is not a free University, but there's still value you can get from it. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1546599842058829831

• Github Copilot, is it worth it? https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1411769327632670721

• Recursion, what it is and why is it important. https://twitter.com/alepiad/status/1547736618085208064