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Sudalai Rajkumar, SRK | Journey to becoming 3x Kaggle GM | Datasets | CTDS.Show #100 Sep 13, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the SRK of Kaggle, 3x Kaggle Grandmaster and Data Scientist at H2O.ai: Sudalai Rajkumar.

This interview is a Part-2 of the previous blog interview, they talk about SRK's journey to becoming 3x Kaggle GM along with his journey in Data Science and Kaggle.

SRK shares many solid suggestions for people getting started in Data Science and Kaggle as well as for people with a "Non-Traditional" Background

Links:

Prev Interview: https://hackernoon.com/interview-with-twice-kaggle-grandmaster-and-data-scientist-at-h20-ai-sudalai-rajkumar-cd952ef0c522

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SRK:

https://twitter.com/sudalairajkumar

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A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Sara Hooker | Research at Google AI | Interpretability and Model Compression | CTDS.Show #99 Sep 10, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Research Scholar at Google brain: Sara Hooker.

Sara has an amazing background and a "non-traditional" path into research. They talk all about her journey into research into machine learning. Sara is still very much connected to her roots, she's from Africa, and she shares her amazing perspective on how different problems, different constraints can contribute to the field, research, or otherwise in interesting ways.

Towards the end they also briefly dive into her recent works.

Links:

Underrated ML: https://www.underratedml.com

Selective Brain Damage: Measuring the Disparate Impact of Model Pruning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.05248

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Sara Hooker:

https://twitter.com/sarahookr

https://www.sarahooker.me

Sanyam Bhutani:

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https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Adrian Rosebrock | The PyImageSearch Story | OpenCV, Deep Learning & Optical Character Recognition Sep 06, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the Computer Vision Guru, Chief at PyImageSearch: Dr. Adrian Rosebrock.

This interview is part-2 of Sanyam's blog interview with Adrian. They talk about Adrian's journey into CV and ML. They also discuss the secrets of PyImageSearch HQ and how the amazing tutorials are created.

They also talk about Adrian's upcoming OCR Book and the importance of OCR.

Links:

OCR Book (Indiegogo link): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ocr-with-opencv-tesseract-and-python/

PyImageSearch: https://www.pyimagesearch.com

Courses and Books by Adrian: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/books-and-courses/

Previous Interview: https://hackernoon.com/interview-with-the-author-of-pyimagesearch-and-computer-vision-practitioner-dr-adrian-rosebrock-e00583a225a0

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A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

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#OpenCV #PyImageSearch #ComputerVision

Anastasiia Mishchuk | Applying Kaggle to Research | Learning ML | CTDS.Show #97 Sep 03, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Computer Vision Research Engineer at EPFL: Anastasiia Mishchuk

They talk about her journey into research, into engineering, and also on kaggle. Anastasiia is a kaggle competition master: They talk about her perspective on kaggle and also dive into her process of approaching research problems and discuss one of her recent works.

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Anastasiia Mishchuk:

https://twitter.com/Ana_Geneva

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https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Dima Damen | Action & Video Recognition | Epic-Kitchens-100 | CTDS.Show #96 Aug 30, 2020

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Personal Note: This is one of the best interviews that I've had the privilege of conducting. Every single answer by Dima, every single qoute is simply, golden.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/GXqq_hj-UuY

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews an associate professor at the University of Bristol and CV researcher with interests in action recognition and video recognition: Dr. Dima Damen

They talk about her journey into the field and her research, what she's learned from working with so many students advising PhD, Masters and undergrad students and about how she teaches computer vision.

They discuss her recent works on action recognition, along with kitchens 100 data set that she's recently created.

Links:

Epic-Kitchens-100 Webpage: https://epic-kitchens.github.io/2020-100

Epic-Kitchens-100 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IzkrWAfAGg

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Dima Damen:

https://twitter.com/dimadamen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimadamen/

http://people.cs.bris.ac.uk/~damen/

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

Blog: sanyambhutani.com

About:

https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

If you'd like to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/chaitimedatascience

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Andrey Kurenkov | Lessons from Grad School | TheGradient.pub | Stanford Research | CTDS.Show #95 Aug 27, 2020

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Video Version: https://youtu.be/NrkfNqz5w7M

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews PhD Student at Stanford, AI and vision lab: Andrey Kurenkov

This interview is a more critical take on research and different aspects of Andrey's research. They talk about what he's learned through his mistakes at grad school.

They also discuss about TheGradient.pub, and Andrey's process of writing.

Links:

"All my failures in Grad School": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxYpJ5mMKx0

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Andrey Kurenkov:

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A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Fatma Guney | Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Frame Optical Flow w Occlusions | 3D CV | CTDS.Show #94 Aug 23, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Computer Vision Researcher: Fatma Guney

They talk all about Computer Vision, her research interests: optical flow and even beyond, self driving cars.

Fatma has also taught a few courses based on computer vision and they dive into her take on what should students focus on in this field.

Links:

Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Frame Optical Flow with Occlusions: http://www.cvlibs.net/publications/Janai2018ECCV.pdf

Slow Flow: Exploiting High-Speed Cameras for Accurate and Diverse Optical Flow Reference Data:

http://www.cvlibs.net/publications/Janai2017CVPR.pdf

Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles: Problems, Datasets and State-of the-Art:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05519

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Fatma Guney:

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https://mysite.ku.edu.tr/fguney/

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https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Ahmet Erdem | Trends Neuroimaging 7th place solo gold | Rapids.ai | CTDS.Show #93 Aug 20, 2020

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Video Version: https://youtu.be/G1ZvjJYRxH8

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews a Kaggle Grandmaster from Turkey, Sr. Software Engineer at Rapids.ai: Ahmet Erdem

They talk all about Ahmet's Kaggle journey, and his seventh place solo gold solution to the Trends Neuroimaging competition.

Ahmet has been competing for a few years now, they discuss his approach to Kaggle which has led him to achieving 50% medals solo versus 50% in a team.

Links:

Interview with Even Oldridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzXIV8P_Jk

7th Place Solution writeup: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trends-assessment-prediction/discussion/162787

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Ahmet Erdem:

https://twitter.com/a_erdem4

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aerdem4/

https://www.kaggle.com/aerdem4

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

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About:

https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

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Abhishek Thakur | Approaching (Almost) any ML Problem | CTDS.Show #92 Aug 16, 2020

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Video Version: https://youtu.be/zgC8fjF0Now

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Abhishek Thakur for the 2nd time!

They talk about his book: Approaching (Almost) any ML Problem, Abhishek's process to creating Videos and his process to writing the book.

They also discuss on how to effectively approach Kaggle and Abhishek shares many advices that are applicable to Kaggle.

Links:

Previous Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezbo57Z33N8

Follow:

Abhishek Thakur

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abhi1thakur

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBPRJjIWfyNG4X-CRbnv78A

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

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About:

https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

If you'd like to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/chaitimedatascience

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Guanshuo Xu | Achieving #1 Rank in Kaggle Competitions Tier | Alaska2 Winning Sol | CTDS.Show #91 Aug 13, 2020

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Video version: https://youtu.be/lkUhibNLMNk

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Data Scientist at H2O.ai, the new King of Kaggle Competitions, new Rank 1: Dr. Guanshuo Xu

Guanshuo has just secured the title with his win in Alaska2 Image Steganalysis competition, in his journey he has achieved 15 gold medals, 15 silver medals, out of these 10 are solo gold 13 are solo Silver!

They talk about his journey on Kaggle, he shares a few advices around how you should approach Kaggle, and how his approach has changed, how he approaches competition and how he learned over the period of competing on Kaggle.

They also briefly discuss his solution to the Alaska2 competition as a proxy to understanding his approach to competitions.

They also talk about his role at H2O.ai and the projects that he is contributing to.

Links:

Alaska2 Comp Page: https://www.kaggle.com/c/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion

Solution Writeup: https://www.kaggle.com/c/alaska2-image-steganalysis/discussion/168548

Follow:

Dr. Guanshuo Xu:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guanshuo-xu/

https://www.kaggle.com/wowfattie

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

Blog: sanyambhutani.com

About:

https://sanyambhutani.com/tag/chaitimedatascience/

A show for Interviews with Practitioners, Kagglers & Researchers and all things Data Science hosted by Sanyam Bhutani.

You can expect weekly episodes every available as Video, Podcast, and blogposts.

If you'd like to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/chaitimedatascience

Intro track:

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