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Hi! I'm also here (other co-founder of the company/project), we'd love to understand if this is a problem only we encountered - or others also need to keep track of their simulated model performance over time!
Mark here, happy to answer any questions or provide more info about fold!:)
We'll be working on the pytorch integration soon! `Fold`'s scope is time series, but there's nothing stopping you from sending in vector embeddings of any kind, timestamped.
Figuring out how to create those embeddings (that make sense over time) can mean quite a bit of research work, and requires flexibility, so it's probably better done outside of the time series library, with the tools of your choice.
Mark here (other co-founder), we're really curious if you are using Time Series Cross-Validation, with what tools, how frequently, and what kind of issues did you bump into!
Really nice, I haven't heard of pygraphistry, looks like something that would have made our lives a lot easier!
That is true, but unfortunately "out of the box", they're not well suited just be "fed into" an NN. Even if you think of the adjacency matrix as very similar to how the weights are laid out in a feed-forward neural network, you can't ignore that:
- in real life, graphs are not fixed
- you need to deal with the many different potential representations of the graph (permutation invariance)
- the nodes are usually containing more features than a single scalar value
but this is definitely not the best explanation, I think this guy does a lot better job: https://youtu.be/JtDgmmQ60x8
Thank you for pointing that out, we've corrected that in the article!
In my mind, GNNs are designed to solve graph problems, in the usual case, with message passing, that enables (I'd emphasise the aggregation step) to "do ML on graphs".
I'm also quite excited about that - there's existing research, quite a few papers that are using graph-based models for MLOnCode: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/c2937f3a1b3a1... https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05181 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02161 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10636v2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10918
Definitely check them out! There are also tools that were made available by some of the authors: https://github.com/google-research/python-graphs
We'll definitely consider it! Just needed to start with something :)
Honestly, this side project has been a really great experience, from a personal perspective. It has changed my morning and evening routines - the fact that I had to watch/annotate a lot of these talks, I have been exposed to ideas/aspects otherwise I'd have never been, as well as getting a good reminder of the lessons I’ve read in some others.
I really wish it could be as useful for others as well! But we’d need a bit of help in determining whether this is the right format. (2 talks per week + email subscription) If you got a chance, leave us some comments on what you think of the concept and why you would or would not use it!
The short story why we started with this: We found ourselves with a lot of books we wish we have read - with little time, and sometimes (to be honest) even less patience to actually get through this ever-growing list. On the other hand, we wanted to escape the high noise-to-signal ratio news sites, link aggregators, and the harmful, compulsive behaviour we developed by using them. We always enjoyed authors presenting their own ideas, ways of thinking first-hand, much more than the usually dry third-party book summary apps you can subscribe to.
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Fortunately almost all (ca. 80%) of the libraries we use have either internal or external Typescript definitions, and it's nice to see more and more d.ts files popping up in these repos (or on definitelytyped)