Adventures in Machine Learning

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Today, we do a deep dive into Ben's background. We cover his career trajectory and, more importantly, how nature and nurture have impacted the way he thinks. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of th...

Today we speak with a software engineer who is interested in becoming an ML engineer. Expect to learn about ML roles that are most attainable based on a strong software engineering skill set. We also cover some tangible strategies you can leverage to make the transition. On YouTube  How to Transition from Software Engineer to ML Engineer - ML 111 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Clu...

Today we look at an applied use case for ML: developing intelligent meeting notes. Expect to learn about LLMs, AI assistants, and how to develop an AI startup. On YouTube Machine Learning for Meeting Notes - ML 110 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Socials LinkedIn: Artem Koren   Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle...

Today we deep dive into the mind of two brilliant Databricks software engineers. Their primary project was building the model serving feature, but expect to learn about ML side projects, traits of successful software engineers, and much more! Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Social LinkedIn: Ankit Mathur LinkedIn: Sue...

Hosts of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, Jillian Rowe and Jonathan Hall, join Ben and Michael on this week's episode crossover. They talk about the intersection of ML and DevOps. They dive into the concepts and differences between ML and DevOps. Additionally, they talk about how ML ideas may be applied to DevOps principles and vice versa. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club star...

ChatGPT is the most robust free chatbot. It can answer questions, write code, and summarize text. Today we will talk about the creation of ChatGPT, its implications for society, and how the model actually works.  Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

Today we look at an applied use case for ML: parsing movie scripts. Expect to learn about bringing ML to new industries, the future of Large Language Models (LLM), and automation in the movie industry. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links LinkedIn: Ruslan Khamidullin Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Today, Michael and Ben talk about the broad implications of ChatGPT and similar algorithms. Expect to learn about... The difference between AI and ML General Artificial Intelligence Some personal opinions about the overlap between "the divine" and AI Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1%...

Today we speak with a staff data scientist at Walmart who specializes in forecasting. He has built an open-source tool that allows you to leverage tabular data in PyTorch. He also has written a book on time series forecasting with deep learning. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links [2207.08548] GATE: Gated Additive T...

How do you develop ML code? Do you use notebooks or do you use IDEs? In this episode, we get some practical advice from both Ben and our guest on leveraging software principles to write better code in both an IDE and notebook environment. We'll also learn about a cool new Databricks feature that will help you run ML code from an IDE. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Be...

In this week's episode, we meet with Micheal McCourt, the head of engineering at SigOpt. He is an industry expert on optimization algorithms, so expect to learn about constraint-active search, SigOpt's new open-source optimizer, and how to run an engineering team. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Michael McCourt...

Have you ever wondered how to secure a cloud deployment? Well, today we talk to the president at a cloud security company about personal security, detecting malicious actors, startup trends, and much more! Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links LinkedIn: Kevin Dominik Korte T...

Have you ever wondered about the most promising industries in Machine Learning? Today we will learn from Avi Goldfarb, the chair of AI at the University of Toronto, about... The most promising AI industries Potential problems with powerful AI The economics behind innovation On YouTube The Disruptive Power of Artificial Intelligence - ML 100 Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club star...

In this episode, Ben talks with Rosaria Silipo, a Software Engineer and Developer Relations advocate at Knime. They discuss the benefits of low-code ML, delve into the history of ML development work as it has changed over the past few decades, and discuss a few stories about the importance of pursuing simplicity in implementations. On YouTube A History Of ML And How Low Code Tooling Accelerates So...

In this week's episode we meet with Mike Arov, committer to the MLOps tool framework lineapy. From the benefits of notebooks as development tooling for Data Science work to the complex refactoring needed to convert them to production-capable code bases, our conversation dives deep into the generally under-represented bridge tooling of code base conversions. On YouTube Moving from Dev Notebooks to...

Let's be honest. We've all copied and pasted code from the internet.  There are many great code sources and in this episode, Ben and Michael discuss how to leverage existing code. They explain how to understand a code base and some best practices for contribution.  Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a T...

Corey Zumar talks about the new release of MLflow, 2.0, and what the new major features that are included in the release. Bilal and Corey then discuss managing feature implementation priorities, and selling large-scale project ideas to internal customers, end-users, executives, and the dev team. The discussion also centers around generalizing feature requests to implementations that will work for...

Do you multitask? If so, you'll want to check out this episode. We'll cover... The difference between good and bad context switching Some personal stories about context switching on projects Practical tips you can leverage to improve your productivity Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Me...

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Have you ever wondered how to prioritize your ML projects? Today we will talk about... The difference between applied ML and ML frameworks How to effectively scope projects via Heilmeier's Catechism Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...

Have you ever wondered how to efficiently learn topics? In this episode, we discuss how to conduct a research spike within an ML team setting. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pri...

Have you ever wondered why data science is hard? Well, in this episode we cover some common data science challenges and how the founders of DagsHub are looking to solve them.  Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Dean Pleban Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreake...

In this show, we cover some practical tips for writing reliable ML code. Here are some of the questions we look to answer... What are tests and why should you use them? What's the difference between unit tests and integration tests? What should you test? How should you write tests in python? (the answer is to use pytest) Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Enov8, who provides test data m...

Charles Simon, BSEE, MSCs is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and software developer who has many years of computer experience in industry including pioneering work in artificial intelligence (AI).  Mr. Simon's technical experience includes the creation of two unique AI systems along with software for successful neurological test equipment combining AI development with biomedical nerve signal...