alt Hacker NewsBut machine learning stuff feels like it could have room for learning-by-doing applications that aren't entirely pointless, so I wonder if there's some way to approach the topic I'm simply not finding.
That's what Karpathy's videos are for. You end up with a GPT-2.0 equivalent if you follow them to the end.
This is still pointless though. I mean it's valuable from a learning perspective but the parent is saying they want to contribute somehow. You can only learn so much from toy examples