Salman Naqvi
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Salman Naqvi
@forbo7.bsky.social
• Studying BSc (Hons) AI & EdTech
• Part-time at Multimodal Intelligence Lab@EdUHK
• fastai student
• 我会说一点儿普通话
• Loves learning
• Is scitech geek and space nerd
• Has been to 15 countries
🔗 forbo7.github.io
📍 China
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Hello! I'm Salman, an undergrad studying AI&EdTech at EdUHK.

Currently part-time at the Multimodal Intelligence Lab@EdUHK, a fastai student, 会说一点儿普通话, loves learning, a scitech geek and space nerd, and have been to 15 countries.

Here, I'll share what I'm learning in AI, robotics and other stuff.
I need a whole remake of the backend of my blog; maintenance is important! 🥵😵‍💫
December 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Salman Naqvi
Turns out we weren't done for major LLM releases in 2024 after all... Alibaba's Qwen just released QvQ, a "visual reasoning model" - the same chain-of-thought trick as OpenAI's o1 applied to running a prompt against an image

Trying it out is a lot of fun: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...
Trying out QvQ—Qwen’s new visual reasoning model
I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on …
simonwillison.net
December 24, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Salman Naqvi
I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
I'm playing around with Fusion, and it feels so slow coming from Blender. Blender, I can whiz around, and the workflow/logic makes sense.

Fusion feels eh; could be how I'm being introduced to it tho
December 9, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Hello! I'm Salman, an undergrad studying AI&EdTech at EdUHK.

Currently part-time at the Multimodal Intelligence Lab@EdUHK, a fastai student, 会说一点儿普通话, loves learning, a scitech geek and space nerd, and have been to 15 countries.

Here, I'll share what I'm learning in AI, robotics and other stuff.
November 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Reposted by Salman Naqvi
Write math on 🦋 with UnicodeIt!
For example: θ ∈ ℝⁿ or pp̅ → μ⁺μ⁻
Use website or install system-wide in Linux, macOS, or windows
www.unicodeit.net

(Created several years ago with @svenkreiss.bsky.social)
November 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Still lowkey the best maths resource out there: mathsisfun.com
Math is Fun
Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, worksheets and an illustrated dictionary. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.
mathsisfun.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:20 AM
大家好!👋👋
November 23, 2024 at 4:53 AM
yO; new place
November 23, 2024 at 4:52 AM