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Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

Building @EurekaLabsAI. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, CS231n/PhD @ Stanford. I like to train large deep neural nets 🧠🤖💥

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3 years ago

(rant) "epochs" are a bug-inducing concept in neural net training and should be avoided in favor of number of iterations. Use of epochs silently functionally distorts training (as datasets change/grow) and decreases code portability (when one wishes to train on different dataset)