ed4 VS SciMLBook

If you're looking for computational neuroscience, check out this free online book used in many research courses along with the software “emergent” - linked on the page: https://compcogneuro.org/

Hm that's difficult. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is probably by now my comfort zone.

So already most pure DL papers are out of this zone, but I anyway many of them, when I find them interesting. Although I tend to find it a bit boring when you just adopt next-great-model (e.g. Transformer, or whatever comes next) to ASR, but most improvements in ASR are just due to that. You know, I'm also interested in all these things like neural turing machine, although I never really got a chance to apply them to anything I work on. But maybe on language modeling. Language modeling is anyway great, as it is simple conceptually, you can directly apply most models to it, and (big) improvements would usually directly carry over to WER.

Attention-based encoder-decoder models started in machine translation (MT). And this was anyway sth part of our team did (although our team was mostly divided into the ASR and MT team). And since that came up, it was clear that this should in principle also work on ASR. It was very helpful to get a good baseline from the MT team to work on, and then to reimplement it in my own framework (by importing model parameters in the end, and dumping hidden state during beam search, to make sure it is 100% correct). And then take most recent techniques from MT, and adapt them to ASR. Others did that as well, but I had the chance to use some more recent methods, and also things like subword units (BPE) which was not standard in ASR by then. Just adopting this got me some very nice results (and a nice paper in the end). So I try to follow up on MT sometime to see what I can use for ASR.

Then out of own interest, I'm also interested in RL. And there are some ideas you can also take over to ASR (and have been already). Although this is somewhat limited. Min expected WER training (like policy gradient) has independently already developed in the ASR field, but it's interesting to see relations, and adopt RL ideas. E.g. actor critic might be useful (has already be done, but only limited so far).

Another field, even further away, is computational neuroscience. I have taken some Coursera course on this, and regularly read papers, although I don't really understand them in depth. But this is sth which really interests me. I'm closely following all the work by Randall O'Reilly (https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/oreilly). E.g. see his most recent lecture (https://compcogneuro.org/).

This already keeps me quite busy. Although I think all of these areas can really help me advance things (well, maybe ASR, although in principle I would also like to work on more generic A(G)I stuff).

If I would have infinite time, I would probably also study some more math, physics and biology...

I've been working on and off using SciML. I just found out they have an e-book: https://book.sciml.ai/

I'm hoping the new SciML docs can become a good enough source for beginners looking to do scientific computing (https://docs.sciml.ai/Overview/stable/). It's not there yet, we literally started redirecting links to the new docs on Monday so that's how new it is, it's already moving in the direction of having a lot of materials for new users (in scientific computing specifically, this is not and will not be a general Julia resource) before ever hitting deeper features.

Though if someone wants to dive deep into the language, I'd plug my own SciML course notes: https://book.sciml.ai/, which again is not for general usage but scientific computing but does show a lot about good programming styles (see https://book.sciml.ai/notes/02-Optimizing_Serial_Code/).

This was previously the https://github.com/mitmath/18337 course website, but now in a new iteration of the course it is being reset. To avoid issues like this in the future, we have moved the "book" out to its own repository, https://github.com/SciML/SciMLBook, where it can continue to grow and be hosted separately from the structure of a course. This means it can be something other courses can depend on as well. I am looking for web developers who can help build a nicer webpage for this book, and also for the SciMLBenchmarks.