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Aakash Nain | Tensorflow 2.0 | TF Add-Ons | Good API Designs | CTDS.Show #90 Aug 09, 2020

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In this Episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews one of his personal mentors and a mentor and a guru to the Indian machine learning community, Aakash Nain: Deep Learning engineer at Ola, GoogleDev Expert and TensorFlow add on maintainer.

This interview is really part two of the earlier blog interview with Akash. In this interview, they really expand on the things from earlier and discuss Aakash's journey into open source, how his appreciation for open source TensorFlow and good API has evolved.

He also shares many amazing advices on how someone who's interested in becoming a better practitioner, better Kaggler, better contributor, can learn and learn from Aakash's mistakes as well.

Previous Interview: https://medium.com/dsnet/interview-with-kaggle-kernels-expert-aakash-nain-73209223bbd0

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Rachael Tatman | Rasa, Kaggle | Conversational AI | CTDS.Show #89 Aug 06, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Rachael Tatman for the second time!

This interview is a continuation of the same, Rachael was earlier at Kaggle, and they start the interview by talking about her work at Kaggle, and her involvement with the community's contribution towards her journey.

Later, shifting gears into her role today, which is a developer advocate at Rasa: What exactly does a Developer Advocate mean?

Rachael also shares many interesting opinions on conversational AI, her opinion of the state of conversational AI in 2020, and many great interesting project ideas for any of you that's interesting in building projects out using Rasa, or otherwise, for anyone who's seeking ideas

They talk about her process of content creation, and if you watch any of our streams, they also discuss how does she brings so much positivity and so much energy to all of our streams.

Links:

Previous Interview: https://medium.com/dsnet/interview-with-data-scientist-at-kaggle-dr-rachael-tatman-8bc61f9efdb9

https://rasa.com

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Rachael Tatman:

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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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#Chatbots #Rasa #Kaggle

Philipp Singer | Two Solo Gold Solutions: Jigsaw Toxic Comment, Tweet Sentiment | CTDS.Show #88 Aug 02, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the relentless Solo Lion from The Zoo: Philipp Singer for the 3rd time!

Philipp has just become a competition Gandnaster after gold meddling solo in two competitions bringing 11 gold medals to his profile!

They talk about his journey on kaggle: his reflections on this journey to becoming a grandmaster in one and a half years, his secret to winning and his constant success on kaggle.

They also discuss about his recent role: he's just joined the team at h2o.ai, and we discuss about what tasks is he taking on here.

Timestamps:

00:00: Intro

03:24: Grandmaster Fight Club & Favourite Kaggle Memories

08:50: Advice to yourself from the past

12:23: New role and H2O.ai

17:12: Competing in 2 comps

19:23: Jigsaw Comp

40:12: Twitter Sentiment Comp

58:42: What's next for you?

Links:

Jigsaw Multilingual Toxic Comment Classification 8th Pos Sol writeup by Philipp: https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-multilingual-toxic-comment-classification/discussion/160937

Tweet Sentiment Extraction, 11th Pos Sol Writeup by. Philipp: https://www.kaggle.com/c/tweet-sentiment-extraction/discussion/159440

Previous Interviews:

NFL Data Bowl Win Sol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Srv0bKmfjY

IEEE-CIS Comp 6th Pos Sol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sh5QrUIAHI

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Rob Mulla | Trends Neuroimaging: 15th Pos & Ion Switching: 11th Pos Sol | CTDS.Show #87 Jul 30, 2020

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Personal Note: In My opinion, this interview really connects the dots well for anyone who's looking to make a transition or just starting the journey in data science via Kaggle.

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Dual Grandmaster and Competitions Master: Rob Mulla.

They talk about Rob's journey into data: He started as an electrical engineer transitioned into analytics and data science afterwards.

Rob has been sharing a few interesting kernels which are called race to the name of the competition, and many amazing other kernels as well, they discussed about his process of creating them.

They also discussed two of his recent amazing finishes on different competitions: The first is a solo golden finish, on University of Liverpool: Ion Switching competition, as well as a 15th position silver finish on the Trends NeuroImaging Competition.

Links:

Ion Switching Solution Writeup: https://www.kaggle.com/c/liverpool-ion-switching/discussion/153694#861209

Trends NeuroImaging Solution Writeup: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trends-assessment-prediction/discussion/162749

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https://www.kaggle.com/robikscube

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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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#Grandmaster #Solution #Kaggle

Shaikat Galib | Tweet Sentiment Classification 13th Pos Gold Sol | CTDS.Show #86 Jul 26, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews the first Kaggle Grandmaster from Bangladesh: Shaikat Galib

Shaikat has done a PhD in nuclear engineering and has just become a competition Grandmaster: as you expect in this episode, they talk all about his journey on and off kaggle.

He's also a data scientist at h2o.ai and they discuss his work along with his 13th position gold winning solution to the Tweet Sentiment Extraction Kaggle Competition

Links:

Tweet Sentiment Extraction, 13th Pos Sol Writeup by. Shaikat: https://www.kaggle.com/c/tweet-sentiment-extraction/discussion/159505

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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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Anniversary Episode: Celebrating 1 Year of CTDS.Show | CTDS.Show Kaggle Contest Results | Episode #85 Jul 23, 2020

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Note 1: This episode is a reflection on the past 1 year of running CTDS.Show and results of the Kaggle contest, interviews resume this Sunday. The complete playlist upto September end has been announced on the YouTube page.

Note 2: The show notes will be updated in a few hours from the release to sync with the kernel leaderboard announcement.

Kaggle Contest Link: https://www.kaggle.com/rohanrao/chai-time-data-science/discussion/156137

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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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Chris Deotte | Secrets to Becoming 4x Kaggle Grandmaster | Discussions and Notebooks #1 | CTDS.Show #84 Jul 19, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews 4x Kaggle Grandmaster and the new King of Discussions and Notebooks: Chris Deotte.

Chris has an amazing, very diverse and very rich background, they connect the dots of his journey his professional journey with data science, they talk about his previous life: How did he transition into data science on kaggle and his journey on kaggle.

Chris at the time of recording has just become a 4x Grandmaster: He's ranked 32 on the

This interview is really a complete overview of Chris's journey on and off Kaggle, his overview of Kaggle.

Links:

More about rapids.ai: https://youtu.be/-WzXIV8P_Jk

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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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Aman Madaan | Politeness Transfer: A tag and Generate Approach | fast.ai | CTDS.Show #83 Jul 16, 2020

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Video Version: https://youtu.be/_5XDjUoQvp4

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Graduate student and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University: Aman Madaan

Aman has worked across different industries across different machine learning related use cases, which they talk all about in this interview. He's worked on use cases involving applications at large scale and has recently transitioned into academia.

They discuss about his perspective and his perspective changes from that transition.

Aman has also taken the fast ai course, one of his posts from three years ago just became a reality his idea led to people research project about "Politeifying text": Making your text making your text more polite.

They discuss all about this project, and how have the last three years helped make this happen.

Links:

Politeness Transfer: A tag and Generate Approach: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.14257

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#fastai #StyleTransfer #DeepLearning

Yifan Xie | Freelancing in Data Science | Kaggle DFDC Comp | CTDS.Show #82 Jul 12, 2020

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Data Scientist at Arion.ai, Kaggle Comp Master: Yifan Xie

They talk about Yifan’s journey into Data Science, kaggle and how his approach to competing and freelancing changed over the years.

They also discuss their team’s Solution to DFDC Comp.

Links:

https://www.kaggle.com/c/deepfake-detection-challenge/discussion/157983

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Yifan Xie:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/YifanX

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yifanxie/

Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/yifanxie

Sanyam Bhutani:

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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.

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Video Link: https://youtu.be/LPdbnasJ9wI

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Computer Vision Researcher at the Oxford VGG Group: Yuki Asano.

They talk all about Yuki's journey into Computer Vision and his research interests, how Yuki approaches research.

They also discuss three of Yuki's recent works and Yuki walks us through the process of how he approached the projects, along with an interesting overview of the same.

Links:

A critical analysis of self-supervision, or what we can learn from a single image: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13132

Self-labelling via simultaneous clustering and representation learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05371

Labelling unlabelled videos from scratch with multi-modal self-supervision: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13662

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https://yukimasano.github.io

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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.

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