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Statistics at a scale that stopped behaving like statistics.

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10:27

Orange (software)

Visual programming doesn’t replace coding — it defers the hard parts until they’re unavoidable.
9:18

Diffusion model

Diffusion models don’t generate images—they reverse entropy, one noisy step at a time.
10:11

PyTorch

Facebook · 2016

PyTorch is a Python-first deep learning library built by Meta in 2016 as Torch's successor. It enables rapid model prototyping via dynamic computation graphs (Autograd), tensor abstractions, and CUDA-accelerated training. As of 2025, it remains one of the most popular deep learning libraries—alongside TensorFlow and Keras—but its design prioritises researcher agility over production robustness, scalability, or deployment tooling.

9:26

TensorFlow

Google · 2015

TensorFlow is a machine learning API developed by Google. It is used mainly for training and inference of neural networks. It is free and open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0. It was developed by the Google Brain team for Google's internal use in research and production. The initial version was released under the Apache License 2.0 in 2015. Google released an updated version, TensorFlow 2.0, in September 2019. TensorFlow can be used in a wide variety of programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, C++, and Java. It is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks, alongside others such as PyTorch.

11:49

AI data center

AI data centers don’t just run models—they starve the rest of computing of memory.
8:48

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is not intelligence — it’s a prompt-to-output relay, optimised for speed, not truth.
11:14

ImageNet

Fei-Fei Li

ImageNet is a foundational dataset infrastructure — not a model, not a tool, not a service. It succeeded by making scale measurable, not magical.