# Stephen Welch
Welch Labs; made the video reposted without credit. Topic: [[Topics/LLMs/LLMs|LLMs]] · [[Topics/LLMs/Sources|Sources]]
- Runs **Welch Labs** ([YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgH9sr7G13Q); [@welchlabs](https://x.com/welchlabs), 5,675 followers on X), which makes animated math and ML explainers and sells a "Welch Labs illustrated guide to AI" book.
- Made "The most cited paper of the century is a brilliant hack" (Sep 1, 2026; 35:18; 1.82M views by Oct 24), with Sam Baskin, Pranav Gundu and Matthew Cohen; sponsored by Jane Street. @0xDeliriumm reposted about 19.5 minutes of it on Oct 24, 2026 without credit: [[Users/@0xDeliriumm/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - 0xdeliriumm on ResNet and Residual Connections (2026-10-24)|analysis]].
- His notes say Kaiming He declined an interview and Zhang and Ren did not respond. He points out that the original ResNet added the shortcut before the final ReLU, and that his loss-landscape pictures use Li et al. 2018 ([arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09913)).