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Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI Dec 21, 2020

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Braden Hancock joins Chris to discuss Snorkel Flow and the Snorkel open source project. With Flow, users programmatically label, build, and augment training data to drive a radically faster, more flexible, and higher quality end-to-end AI development and deployment process.

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Engaging with governments on AI for good Dec 14, 2020

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At this year’s Government & Public Sector R Conference (or R|Gov) our very own Daniel Whitenack moderated a panel on how AI practitioners can engage with governments on AI for good projects. That discussion is being republished in this episode for all our listeners to enjoy!

The panelists were Danya Murali from Arcadia Power and Emily Martinez from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Danya and Emily gave some great perspectives on sources of government data, ethical uses of data, and privacy.

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Emily Martinez – X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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The Government & Public Sector R Conference, or R|Gov for short, is returning in Fall of 2021 and the R Conference New York is returning in 2021 as well and you can learn more at rstats.ai, twitter.com/rstatsnyc and twitter.com/rstatsdc.

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From research to product at Azure AI Dec 07, 2020

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Bharat Sandhu, Director of Azure AI and Mixed Reality at Microsoft, joins Chris and Daniel to talk about how Microsoft is making AI accessible and productive for users, and how AI solutions can address real world challenges that customers face. He also shares Microsoft’s research-to-product process, along with the advances they have made in computer vision, image captioning, and how researchers were able to make AI that can describe images as well as people do.

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The world's largest open library dataset Dec 01, 2020

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Unsplash has released the world’s largest open library dataset, which includes 2M+ high-quality Unsplash photos, 5M keywords, and over 250M searches. They have big ideas about how the dataset might be used by ML/AI folks, and there have already been some interesting applications. In this episode, Luke and Tim discuss why they released this data and what it take to maintain a dataset of this size.

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A casual conversation concerning causal inference Nov 24, 2020

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, cohost of the Casual Inference Podcast and a professor at Wake Forest University, joins Daniel and Chris for a deep dive into causal inference. Referring to current events (e.g. misreporting of COVID-19 data in Georgia) as examples, they explore how we interact with, analyze, trust, and interpret data - addressing underlying assumptions, counterfactual frameworks, and unmeasured confounders (Chris’s next Halloween costume).

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Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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Practical AI is a “Media Sponsor” of the R Conference | Government & Public Sector, where Lucy D’Agostino McGowan is giving the talk with Malcolm Barrett called “Causal Inference in R”, as well as a workshop with the same title.

This will be the first ever R Conference focused on data science work in government, defense, and the public sector.

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Building a deep learning workstation Nov 17, 2020

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What’s it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what’s the best way to utilize it? Chris and Daniel dig into questions today as they talk about Daniel’s recent workstation build. He built a workstation for his NLP and Speech work with two GPUs, and it has been serving him well (minus a few things he would change if he did it again).

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Daniel’s workstation components:

CPU - AMD YD292XA8AFWOF Ryzen Threadripper 2920X
CPU cooler - Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3, Premium-Grade CPU Cooler for AMD sTRX4/TR4/SP3
Motherboard - GIGABYTE X399 AORUS PRO
Memory - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 2 packs), total 64GB
Storage 1 - Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB
GPU 1 - RTX 2080 Ti
GPU 2 - Titan RTX
Case - Lian Li PC-O11AIR
Power Supply - Rosewill Hercules
Case fan(s) - Coolmaster 8mm

Daniel’s NUC 9 Extreme machine

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Killer developer tools for machine learning Nov 09, 2020

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Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered while working as an AI intern at OpenAI. He also shares his vision for the future of machine learning tooling and where he would like to see people level up tool-wise.

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Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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Reinforcement Learning for search Oct 26, 2020

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Hamish from Sajari blows our mind with a great discussion about AI in search. In particular, he talks about Sajari’s quest for performant AI implementations and extensive use of Reinforcement Learning (RL). We’ve been wanting to make this one happen for a while, and it was well worth the wait.

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Hamish Ogilvy – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

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When data leakage turns into a flood of trouble Oct 20, 2020

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Rajiv Shah teaches Daniel and Chris about data leakage, and its major impact upon machine learning models. It’s the kind of topic that we don’t often think about, but which can ruin our results. Raj discusses how to use activation maps and image embedding to find leakage, so that leaking information in our test set does not find its way into our training set.

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Productionizing AI at LinkedIn Oct 13, 2020

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Suju Rajan from LinkedIn joined us to talk about how they are operationalizing state-of-the-art AI at LinkedIn. She sheds light on how AI can and is being used in recruiting, and she weaves in some great explanations of how graph-structured data, personalization, and representation learning can be applied to LinkedIn’s candidate search problem. Suju is passionate about helping people deal with machine learning technical debt, and that gives this episode a good dose of practicality.

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