A personal message to the hivemind ❤️

Hellooooo, hivemind!

As some of you may have seen from our recent YouTube community post, we’ve started a second channel called deeplizard vlog! As mentioned in that post, over the last few months, we’ve adopted a nomadic lifestyle and have been living throughout South East Asia. On deeplizard vlog, we’ve shared some of our experiences so far. The video linked to this post is one example!

So... why did we decide to do this? 

As you may have noticed from our style on deeplizard, we’ve historically been pretty private people by not showing who we are and not even sharing our names. Well, in the spirit of aiming to be true polymaths, we decided to push ourselves completely out of our comfort zones by venturing outside of the U.S. (which we’ve never done before), learning how to film, learning how to produce new content, and becoming more open and social while doing so... Oh, and doing this all on camera!

We also wanted to lead by example by showing how someone can be a researcher, a mathematician, a programmer, or [insert any other profession here], and not have to fit inside the box of whatever that may typically look like. We thought that sharing another side of ourselves could be beneficial in spreading this message as we continue our mission to build collective intelligence through deeplizard.

So, let us formally introduce ourselves by name to you for the first time. We are Chris and Mandy. If you’re following our most recent content on deeplizard, you may know Chris from the PyTorch series, and you may know Mandy from the reinforcement learning series. We’re really excited to share experiences and conversations with you in a new way.

If you’re interested in connecting with us outside of original deeplizard content, head over to deeplizard vlog and subscribe! Otherwise, we’ll still be continuing to make deeplizard content in the way we always have on our original channel :)

Thank you all for being part of the hivemind, and we hope to hear from you!

Chris and Mandy
❤️🦎