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Continual learning: what it is, and what I've learned working with it

Machine Learning · 28 July 2026 · 15 min read · includes a notebook

Reviewing my PhD student's final thesis draft left me with a question his models were never asked to answer: what happens when a model has to live through decades of drifting data? The map I wish someone had handed me at the start: catastrophic forgetting and which remedies to trust, how to read the literature without being misled, a reading path, and a two-minute experiment in which a network forgets everything and a 200-image memory saves it.