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Hey again, folks :)

Two years have passed since my last attempt to revive this channel. In that time, I left my job in prop trading, spent a year doing the MicroMasters in Finance, and in November ’24 joined a skyrocketing (according to Bloomberg) hedge fund. Now we’re driving its HFT strategies to the moon with FPGA platforms and highly optimised software.

The flip side of the coin — I’m still far, far away from machine learning hardware. Not as far as I was when I started this channel half a decade ago, but still not quite there.

So, here’s my proposal to make this group a bit more interactive:
I want to start a learning group on the material mentioned above — How To Scale Your Model.

Plan: 12 sections → 12 seminars. Each seminar is a 1-hour call where we read through the chapter, rephrase it, and discuss.
No fees, no recordings — pure enthusiasm and passion.

Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:00–8:00 BST (UTC+1).

DM me if you’re interested and ready to invest your time.🕰️

@vconst89


P.S. This text was grammar-checked by ChatGPT but originally typed on my phone, so any remaining quirks are 100% mine.
How To Scale Your Model Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other…
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