The 26-Year-Old Backprooper

Wants to be adopted by Andrew Ng Sent a friend request to Yann LeCun on facebook Wants to contribute to PyTorch but there are already 3000 backproopers waiting The 26-year-old Backprooper Subscribed to Yannic Kilcher on YouTube Wants to use DL to predict Lotto results Thinks GPT-3 is sentient "Oh shit, it overfit" "I'm implementing this new layer" "I'm backprooooping ahhh" "We present a new cat-dog detection that beats previous SOTA by 0.01%"

A bearded, glasses-wearing machine learning enthusiast is surrounded by captions describing stereotypical AI and deep learning obsessions. The joke exaggerates the image of a young “backprooper” who idolizes famous AI figures, overfits trivial models, and makes grand claims about tiny improvements. People send it as a reaction to overly enthusiastic, jargon-heavy machine learning culture.

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