There should be an active "beginning and easy questions megathread" instead of the sub just being uninviting. The about says to go to "r/learn machine learning" which was just a dead end for me.

For example, I am here because of chatgpt. So quit reading now if you don't like newbs. But I have over 20 years of programming esperience, I just never tried machine learning before. -I have watched videos about it and read, that's it. But I'm interested in it -now.

In a month of hobby time, I now have a working prototype of a novel llm architecture that can learn and write at blistering speed; and accurately rewrite Wikipedia articles, create new poetry, etc with as little as 7mb of model size while staying coherent. I am allowing in to grow to 8.5 billion parameters sometimes and can still run it on a potato device, -quickly. I am working on ways to simultaneously increase accuracy and long term memory and abstraction capability while lowering the amount of resources it needs. And it's working.

And this sub is too snobby to allow beginner questions, so instead of my project getting any sort of help, momentum or publicity or open sourcing, or guidance, -or I don't know, me becoming part of the community here, I'm just keeping it in dark corner to die or get the ADHD hyperfocus once a month; even if yeah it might be worthless, -but it could potentially open up one other person's input and be a game changer, because none of the approaches I'm taking come up in papers or Google searches, and they are efficient and they work.

But no noob questions. So I run to Google and other places to learn, and I don't post here. this community won't grow and get cross specialization with the attitude it has, it's very off putting.