| When AI researcher Sebastian Raschka got married in November 2023, he and his now-wife, Liza, went nontraditional. They wedded in Las Vegas at an Elvis-themed chapel, then celebrated by attending a U2 concert at the Sphere, the futuristic orb-shaped theater on the Strip. The Raschkas also bucked tradition in their selection of wedding rings, eschewing the usual choice between gold and platinum. Rather, they went with Oura rings, the sensor-laden, health-tracking devices that have surged in popularity lately. "Let's say relatives commented on that," said Raschka, a former University of Wisconsin-Madison statistics professor who authored a popular 2024 book, "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)." "They found it unusual." |
