Rachel ThomasResearcher · Answer.AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder
Answer.AIFounding CEO
fast.aiCo-founder
🇦🇺 AustralianBorn 1973
Howard helped open deep learning to programmers without research backgrounds through fast.ai’s free courses and software library. With Sebastian Ruder, he co-created ULMFiT, showing how language models could tackle new text tasks with little labeled data instead of being trained from scratch.
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