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In this episode I speak with Jon Krohn, author of Deeplearning Illustrated  a book that makes deep learning easier to grasp.  We also talk about some important guidelines to take into account whenever you implement a deep learning model, how to deal with bias in machine learning used to match jobs to candidates and the future of AI.      You can purchase the book from  informit.com/dsathome  with...

Join the discussion on our Discord server In this episode I explain how a research group from the University of Lubeck dominated the curse of dimensionality for the generation of large medical images with GANs. The problem is not as trivial as it seems. Many researchers have failed in generating large images with GANs before. One interesting application of such approach is in medicine for the gene...

Some of the most powerful NLP models like BERT and GPT-2 have one thing in common: they all use the transformer architecture. Such architecture is built on top of another important concept already known to the community: self-attention. In this episode I explain what these mechanisms are, how they work and why they are so powerful. Don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter  or join the discussio...

Join the discussion on our Discord server   In this episode, I am with Aaron Gokaslan , computer vision researcher, AI Resident at Facebook AI Research. Aaron is the author of OpenGPT-2, a parallel NLP model to the most discussed version that OpenAI decided not to release because too accurate to be published. We discuss about image-to-image translation, the dangers of the GPT-2 model and the futur...

Join the discussion on our Discord server   After reinforcement learning agents doing great at playing Atari video games, Alpha Go, doing financial trading, dealing with language modeling, let me tell you the real story here. In this episode I want to shine some light on reinforcement learning (RL) and the limitations that every practitioner should consider before taking certain directions. RL see...

Join the discussion on our Discord server   In this episode I have an amazing conversation with Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, authors of “A mind at play”, a book entirely dedicated to the life and achievements of Claude Shannon. Claude Shannon does not need any introduction. But for those who need a refresh, Shannon is the inventor of the information age.  Have you heard of binary code, entropy in i...

Join the discussion on our Discord server As ML plays a more and more relevant role in many domains of everyday life, it’s quite obvious to see more and more attacks to ML systems. In this episode we talk about the most popular attacks against machine learning systems and some mitigations designed by researchers Ambra Demontis and Marco Melis, from the University of Cagliari (Italy). The guests ar...

Join the discussion on our Discord server Scaling technology and business processes are not equal. Since the beginning of the enterprise technology, scaling software has been a difficult task to get right inside large organisations. When it comes to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, it becomes vastly more complicated.  In this episode I propose a framework - in five pillars - for the b...

Join the discussion on our Discord server In this episode, I am with Aaron Gokaslan , computer vision researcher, AI Resident at Facebook AI Research. Aaron is the author of OpenGPT-2, a parallel NLP model to the most discussed version that OpenAI decided not to release because too accurate to be published. We discuss about image-to-image translation, the dangers of the GPT-2 model and the future...

Join the discussion on our Discord server Training neural networks faster usually involves the usage of powerful GPUs. In this episode I explain an interesting method from a group of researchers from Google Brain, who can train neural networks faster by squeezing the hardware to their needs and making the training pipeline more dense. Enjoy the show!   References Faster Neural Network Training wit...

Join the discussion on our Discord server In this episode I explain how a research group from the University of Lubeck dominated the curse of dimensionality for the generation of large medical images with GANs. The problem is not as trivial as it seems. Many researchers have failed in generating large images with GANs before. One interesting application of such approach is in medicine for the gene...

In this episode I am with Jadiel de Armas, senior software engineer at Disney and author of Videflow, a Python framework that facilitates the quick development of complex video analysis applications and other series-processing based applications in a multiprocessing environment.  I have inspected the videoflow repo on Github and some of the capabilities of this framework and I must say that it’s r...

In this episode, I am with Dr. Charles Martin from Calculation Consulting a machine learning and data science consulting company based in San Francisco. We speak about the nuts and bolts of deep neural networks and some impressive findings about the way they work.  The questions that Charles answers in the show are essentially two: Why is regularisation in deep learning seemingly quite different t...

In this episode I explain how a community detection algorithm known as Markov clustering can be constructed by combining simple concepts like random walks, graphs, similarity matrix. Moreover, I highlight how one can build a similarity graph and then run a community detection algorithm on such graph to find clusters in tabular data. You can find a simple hands-on code snippet to play with on the A...

The two most widely considered software development models in modern project management are, without any doubt, the Waterfall Methodology and the Agile Methodology. In this episode I make a comparison between the two and explain what I believe is the best choice for your machine learning project. An interesting post to read (mentioned in the episode) is How businesses can scale Artificial Intellig...

Training neural networks faster usually involves the usage of powerful GPUs. In this episode I explain an interesting method from a group of researchers from Google Brain, who can train neural networks faster by squeezing the hardware to their needs and making the training pipeline more dense. Enjoy the show!   References Faster Neural Network Training with Data Echoing https://arxiv.org/abs/1907....

In this episode, I am with Dr. Charles Martin from Calculation Consulting a machine learning and data science consulting company based in San Francisco. We speak about the nuts and bolts of deep neural networks and some impressive findings about the way they work.  The questions that Charles answers in the show are essentially two: Why is regularisation in deep learning seemingly quite different t...

In this episode I am with Jadiel de Armas, senior software engineer at Disney and author of Videflow, a Python framework that facilitates the quick development of complex video analysis applications and other series-processing based applications in a multiprocessing environment.  I have inspected the videoflow repo on Github and some of the capabilities of this framework and I must say that it’s r...

In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Chris Skinner. Chris and I recently got in touch at The banking scene 2019, fintech conference recently held in Brussels. During that conference he talked as a real trouble maker - that’s how he defines himself - saying that “People are not educated with loans, credit, money” and that “Banks are failing at digital”. After I got my hands on his l...

Today I am with David Kopec, author of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python, published by Manning Publications. His book deepens your knowledge of problem solving techniques from the realm of computer science by challenging you with interesting and realistic scenarios, exercises, and of course algorithms. There are examples in the major topics any data scientist should be familiar with, for...

In this episode I talk about a new paradigm of learning, which can be found a bit blurry and not really different from the other methods we know of, such as supervised and unsupervised learning. The method I introduce here is called self-supervised learning. Enjoy the show!   Don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter at  amethix.com  and get the latest updates in AI and machine learning. We do n...

The successes of deep learning for text analytics, also introduced in a recent post about sentiment analysis and published here are undeniable. Many other tasks in NLP have also benefitted from the superiority of deep learning methods over more traditional approaches. Such extraordinary results have also been possible due to the neural network approach to learn meaningful character and word embedd...

The rapid diffusion of social media like Facebook and Twitter, and the massive use of different types of forums like Reddit, Quora, etc., is producing an impressive amount of text data every day.  There is one specific activity that many business owners have been contemplating over the last five years, that is identifying the social sentiment of their brand, by analysing the conversations of their...

In this episode I speak to Alexandr Honchar, data scientist and owner of blog  https://medium.com/@alexrachnog Alexandr has written very interesting posts about time series analysis for financial data. His blog is in my personal list of best tutorial blogs.  We discuss about financial time series and machine learning, what makes predicting the price of stocks a very challenging task and why machin...

In this episode I have a wonderful conversation with Chris Skinner. Chris and I recently got in touch at The banking scene 2019, fintech conference recently held in Brussels. During that conference he talked as a real trouble maker - that’s how he defines himself - saying that “People are not educated with loans, credit, money” and that “Banks are failing at digital”. After I got my hands on his l...