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OpenAI's new "dangerous" GPT-2 language model (Practical AI #32) Feb 25, 2019

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This week we discuss GPT-2, a new transformer-based language model from OpenAI that has everyone talking. It’s capable of generating incredibly realistic text, and the AI community has lots of concerns about potential malicious applications. We help you understand GPT-2 and we discuss ethical concerns, responsible release of AI research, and resources that we have found useful in learning about language models.

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Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Relevant learning resources:

Jay Alammar “Illustrated” blog articles:
- The illustrated transformer
- The illustrated BERT, elmo, and co
Machine Learning Explained blog:
- An In-Depth Tutorial to AllenNLP (From Basics to ELMo and BERT)
- Paper Dissected: “BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding” Explained

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TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript (JS Party #64) Feb 25, 2019

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Panelists Suz Hinton and Nick Nisi discuss TensorFlow.js and Machine Learning in JavaScript with special guest Paige Bailey, TensorFlow mom and developer Advocate for Google AI.

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TensorFlow.js
Google AI
ml5.js - Friendly Machine Learning for the Web
Machine Learning Glossary
TensorFlow tutorials
Tero Parviainen on CodePen
tfjs-layers - High-level machine learning model API
tfjs-models - Pre-trained TensorFlow.js models
tfma-slicing-metrics-browser.gif 📷
TensorFlow Model Analysis (TFMA) - a library for evaluating TensorFlow models
What-If Tool - Building effective machine learning systems means asking a lot of questions. It’s not enough to train a model and walk away. Instead, good practitioners act as detectives, probing to understand their model better.
EthicalMachineLearning.ipynb
TensorBoard: Visualizing Learning
TensorBoard: Graph Visualization
People + AI Research (PAIR) - Human-centered research and design to make AI partnerships productive, enjoyable, and fair.
Distill - Clear explanations of machine learning
Book: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Book: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning
List of cognitive biases
CleverHans - a Python library to benchmark machine learning systems’ vulnerability to adversarial examples
CleverHans paper
Breaking linear classifiers on ImageNet
CV Dazzle - explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition

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Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS (Changelog Interviews #335) Feb 22, 2019

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We’re talking with Gina Helfrich the Communications Director for NumFOCUS about their story and history, the impact of open code on science, the difference between sponsored and affiliated projects, corporate backing, the back story of their education and events program PyData, and the struggles of storytelling and fundraising.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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AI for social good at Intel (Practical AI #31) Feb 20, 2019

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While at Applied Machine Learning Days in Lausanne, Switzerland, Chris had an inspiring conversation with Anna Bethke, Head of AI for Social Good at Intel. Anna reveals how she started the AI for Social Good program at Intel, and goes on to share the positive impact this program has had - from stopping animal poachers, to helping the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Through this AI for Social Good program, Intel clearly demonstrates how a for-profit business can effectively use AI to make the world a better place for us all.

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With great power comes great responsibility (Changelog Interviews #334) Feb 15, 2019

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Adam and Jerod are joined by JS Party panelist Nick Nisi and #causeascene advocate Kim Crayton for a deep discussion on ethics in the technology industry at-large and our roles as software developers. If you’ve never heard Kim describe what life is like online for underrepresented and marginalized folks, you have to listen to this show!

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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We start by asking the question: should we npm-uninstall-facebook.com?
Jerod and Nick first met Kim at NEJS Conf 2017
Kim also keynoted Node+JS Interactive 2017
Kim’s podcast discusses these topics often
The #causeascene movement being lead by Kim
Read Kim’s article on QZ about defining diversity & inclusion terms
Here’s coverage of bots mimicking female/black voices on NBC, Wired, and NYTimes

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LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i (JS Party #63) Feb 15, 2019

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KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.

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Shawn Wang – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Lin Clark – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Till Schneidereit – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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JavaScript language

WebAssembly

Other References

The event-stream bitcoin wallet hack

What the Panelists are Excited About

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GirlsCoding.org empowers young women to embrace computer science (Practical AI #30) Feb 13, 2019

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Chris sat down with Marta Martinez-Cámara and Miranda Kreković to learn how GirlsCoding.org is inspiring 9–16-year-old girls to learn about computer science. The site is successfully empowering young women to recognize computer science as a valid career choice through hands-on workshops, role models, and by smashing prevalent gender stereotypes. This is an episode that you’ll want to listen to with your daughter!

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Miranda Kreković – Website
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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From voice devices to mobile, you just can't escape JS (JS Party #62) Feb 08, 2019

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KBall and Nick catch up with Nara Kaspergen and Jen Looper for a pair of conversations covering Voice UI Devices, using NativeScript for mobile development, and Jen’s work with Vue Vixens helping make the Vue.js community welcoming to women and non-binary people.

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Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Nara Kaspergen

NPR
NPR One

Voice UI Devices

SDKs and Tooling

Other Concepts

Jen Looper

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Tactical design advice for developers (Changelog Interviews #333) Feb 06, 2019

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Adam talks with Erik Kennedy about tactical design advice for developers. Erik is a self-taught UI designer and brings a wealth of practical advice for those seeking to advance their design skills and learn more about user interface design. We cover his seven rules for creating gorgeous UI, the fundamentals of user interface design — color, typography, layout, and process. We also talk about his course Learn UI Design and how it’s the ultimate on-ramp for upcoming UI designers.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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How Microsoft is using AI to help the Earth (Practical AI #29) Feb 04, 2019

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Chris caught up with Jennifer Marsman, Principal Engineer on the AI for Earth team at Microsoft, right before her speech at Applied Machine Learning Days 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She relayed how the team came into being, what they do, and some of the good deeds they have done for Mother Earth. They are giving away $50 million (US) in grants over five years! It was another excellent example of AI for good!

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