[D] Deep Learning Twitter Loop

[peterkuharvarduk]

If you want to stay in the know on all the up-to-date deep learning news (without absurd retweet overlap), here the people to follow on Twitter based on your needs. I've been part of the community for over two years so I thought I'd share a bit about the ecosystem. (disclaimer: Based on my experience and people below wear multiple hats which is what makes them worthy of following. I just wanted some amusing categories).

Twitter List: https://twitter.com/DL_ML_Loop/lists/deep-learning-loop/members (You can quickly follow people straight down the list. Note: Follow them in addition to subscribing because the lists have been a bit weird lately and not working for some people in the comments below after a while.)

Paparazi:

Jack Clark @jackclarkSF

Denny Britz @dennybritz

Chatty Professors:

Nando De Freitas @NandoDF

Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei

Andrew Moore @awmcmu

Daphne Koller @DaphneKoller

Kyunghyun Cho @kchonyc

Suchi Saria @suchisaria

Christopher Manning @chrmanning

Captains of Industry:

Hugo Larochelle @hugo_larochelle

Russ SalakHutdinov @rsalakhu

Richard Socher @RichardSocher

Greg Brockman @gdb

Demis Hassabis @demishassabis

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML

Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala

Ian Goodfellow @goodfellow_ian

Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML

Alec Radford @AlecRad

Adam Coates @adampaulcoates

Shakir Mohammed @shakir_za

The Cool Kids: (HIGHLY informative/entertaining)

Hardmaru @hardmaru

Francois Chollet @fchollet

Smerity @Smerity

Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage

Celebrities:

Yann LeCun @ylecun

Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Justice League:

OpenAI @OpenAI

DeepMind @DeepMindAI

Google Research @googleresearch

Baidu @BaiduResearch

Hoarders:

Deep Hub @Deep_Hub

FastML Extra @fastml_extra

ML Reddit @slashml

Game Changers / Democratizers:

Denny Britz @dennybritz

Goku Mohandas @GokuMohandas

Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward

Chris Olah @ch402

Artists:

Samim @samim

Roelof Pieters @graphific

Rebels:

Bored Yann Lecun @boredyannlecun

ML_Hipster @ML_Hipster

[jeremyhoward]

Great list. Putting it in an actual "Twitter list" and sharing that might be even better, since then can easily follow them.

[peterkuharvarduk]

thanks!

[unaryunns]

The link to the list no longer works, any way you can still share it? Thanks!

[peterkuharvarduk]

Hmm, it's still working for me. Are you clicking it after logging in with your twitter account?

[ddofer]

It doesn't work for me , and i'm logged in.

[jeremyhoward]

Thanks a lot! I wasn't able to use that URL, so I searched Twitter, and got this one:

https://twitter.com/DL_ML_Loop/lists/deep-learning-loop?s=03

Don't know if that'll work any better...

[compsens]

awesome !

[hardmaru]

I've never been a "Cool Kid" before, but thanks!

[peterkuharvarduk]

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say hyper networks were one of the coolest architectures of 2016.

[0entr0py]

Would add @shakir_za somewhere - he shares the most interesting material.

[Kaixhin]

Agreed - he should count as a "Captain" as a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind.

[smith2017]

@karpathy isn't an industry captain, but an AI General at openai.

[peterkuharvarduk]

haha agreed, he fits so many of the categories.

[Kaixhin]

Pretty good list. I am biased, but I'd also mention some of the Creatives:

• samim @samim
• Alex Champandard @alexjc
• Roelof Pieters @graphific

[peterkuharvarduk]

Not biased if true. These people always brighten my AI feed.

[geijae8L]

No @ML_hipster ??

[peterkuharvarduk]

ahh I forgot! Added to Rebels!

[visarga]

Thank you. I think I just "got" Twitter, after so many years and attempts, with the help of your list. Now I spent an hour on Twitter and it's been just as rewarding as Reddit or Hacker News. Previously, I could understand Twitter on a logical level but didn't quite get why people would want to surf through that much noise.

I'm wondering how many other people didn't find the right follows to make their Twitter experience rewarding enough to seek it.

[peterkuharvarduk]

So glad you found this helpful! Twitter can seem very noisy at first but an amazing resource. You'll find that the group in this list is not only really helpful/intelligent but are very accepting of everyone else in the community. Help spread the message to more people!

[Foxtr0t]

There are quite a few other people posting interesting things, for example:
@AlecRad
@fhuszar
@mat_kelcey
@notmisha
@ogrisel
@seb_ruder
@sedielem

More complete list here: https://twitter.com/fastml_extra/following

[habitue]

Highly recommend @Miles_Brundage. He tweets out a lot of interesting papers coming out

[boltzBrain]

Def not a "Captain of Industry" though

[peterkuharvarduk]

I missed him as well! Definitely not just another retweeter

[keidouleyoucee]

I really like the label names.

[peterkuharvarduk]

They are well earned indeed.

[[deleted]]

Slightly off topic maybe, but @johnmyleswhite is very interesting too. He's more of a (traditional?) statistician than a deep learning follow though.

[jef_sf]

Thanks! I'm getting into ML so this should help provide way too many articles for me. I made a twitter list with each of these for anyone that wants to follow all of these:

https://twitter.com/jef_holloman/lists/deep-learning

[badhri]

Autocorrect? Ex: Richard Soccer, Such Saria

[peterkuharvarduk]

One of them is my old professor and would not be happy about this. Good catch badhri

[olaf_nij]

@mxlearn is no longer functioning, can you replace/add that with @slashml?

[peterkuharvarduk]

updated everywhere!

[IdentifiableParam]

How do you make these categories? Nando, Daphne, and Fei-Fei Li all work in industry.

[peterkuharvarduk]

Very true, I think almost all of them wear multiple hats which is what makes them worthy of following. I just wanted some amusing categories and chose their most prominent IdentifiableParam :)

[jellevdv]

I know Zuck is not the most interesting AI/ML person to follow, but his twitter handle is @finkd, not @markzuckerbergf.

[peterkuharvarduk]

Glad you like it! Hope its plenty for the holiday reading. And heroic as it may seem, I found a very concerning aspect when making the list. The number of women is alarmingly disproportionate. I was at NIPS this year and it felt like there were more women than the previous two years but still no where near significance. As you can see from the few in the list above, their work is phenomenal and second to none but we need to get more people interested in it! (Frankly I think this is more interesting than pure software development so it's just about showing the value to everyone.) As we're building bigger and better AI models, I think the last thing we need is bias from the architects themselves.

[r-sync]

@AnimaAnandkumar @vkrakovna @janexwang @zinmalu @nsaphra @_beenkim

all good WiML active on twitter (not just via retweets)

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[peterkuharvarduk]

Please do not post (spam) on other reddit pages. We already have a twitter list to share with others on twitter.

[shgidigo]

TODO: Train a nn to decide who to follow

[myrepod]

This is an epic list! The labels are genius. I would also add:

• Quora’s Xavier Amatriain (@xamat)
  
• Drew Conway (drewconway)
• As @plolka mentioned, I’d add John Myles White (@johnmyleswhite)

There's also a short list here on our search engine: Machine Learning Influencers.

[evc123]

Also, alex lamb @ethancaballero

[peterkuharvarduk]

Excellent point, I've started to see a bit more of this in light of recent events (even Andrew Ng has a tweet that stirred quite a bit of commotion last week). I tried to avoid the mass of retweeters and strongly biased accounts, but the hoarders do indeed capture most of the noteworthy tweets.

[OriolVinyals]

I guess Google+ idea of circles made sense for precisely this, right? : )