Adventures in Machine Learning

By Ben Wilson, Michael Berk

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What's Adventures in Machine Learning about?

Machine Learning is growing in leaps and bounds both in capability and adoption. Listen to our experts discuss the ideas and fundamentals needed to succeed as a Machine Learning Engineer.

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06.30.2022

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Adventures in Machine Learning episodes:

06.17.2021 Scaling video processing with Deep Learning - ML 033 In this episode we talk with Serhii Maksymenko about how to scale video processing with DL frameworks. From buffered asynchronous processing to how to get started with projects of this complexity, Serhii discusses his project work and unique take on ...
06.04.2021 The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main ...
06.03.2021 The 3 Essentials for Successful Job Outcomes - BONUS Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main ...
05.28.2021 How to Get Hired at a FANG Company - BONUS Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. ...
05.27.2021 Parallelizing Model Training with Michael Galarnyk - ML 032 Michael Galarnyk is a Developer Relations at AnyScale and has nearly 10,000 follows on Medium. He joins the adventure to walk Chuck through how he's parallelized the training of his Machine Learning models on multi-core machines. He also walks Chuck ...
05.20.2021 The Best Machine Learning Frameworks and Tensorflow Extensions with Derrick Mwiti - ML 031 Derrick Mwiti joins the adventure to discuss the various tools you can use to jumpstart your Machine Learning adventure. He walks through several frameworks for Machine Learning and points out several Tensorflow extensions that will make your Machine Learning models ...
05.13.2021 Automated Machine Learning with Qingquan Song - ML 030 Qingquan Song is a member of the AutoKeras team and recent Phd graduate from Texas A&M; University. He co-authored the Automated Machine Learning book from Manning publishing and joins the adventure to explain automated machine learning and how it can ...
05.07.2021 Becoming the Go-To Person in Your Technology Area - BONUS Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make ...
05.06.2021 Machine Learning for the Mars Rover with Annie Didier - ML 029 Annie Didier from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab talks to us about the Machine Learning algorithms and process that goes into how the next Mars rover will choose how it moves across the surface of Mars. She explains each algorithm and ...
04.29.2021 Don't Let These Things Keep You From Podcasting - BONUS Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood
04.29.2021 Tensorflow.js with Gant Laborde - ML 028 Gant's back!!! He's releasing a book with Manning Publishing about Tensorflow.js and he's here to discuss all the details with us. He explains the difference between Teonsorflow and Tensorflow.js and goes into some of the pros and cons of using ...
04.23.2021 BONUS: Relationships Matter Most Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He ...
04.22.2021 ML 027: Staying Current in Machine Learning Miguel and Chuck discuss how to stay current in the rapidly changing world of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. They go over how to pick books, newsletters, podcasts, and other resources to up your Machine Learning knowledge and skills. Panel ...
04.16.2021 BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can ...
04.15.2021 BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can ...
04.09.2021 BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer? Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over ...
04.08.2021 ML 026: Sweetviz with Francois Bertrand Francois Bertrand is the author of a tool that builds in powerful data visualization tools for datasets that allow data scientists and machine learning engineers to look at their data and analyze various qualities that they have. This could allow ...
04.02.2021 BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working ...
04.01.2021 ML 025: Machine Learning and Quantum Computing with Ather Fawaz Ather Fawaz joins the discussion to walk us through the world of qubits, quantum computers, machine learning algortithms, and what quantum computer means for machine learning. He explains the basics of quantum computer and who the major players are in ...
03.26.2021 BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode ...
03.26.2021 BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode ...
03.23.2021 ML 024: Machine Learning in Action with Ben Wilson Ben Wilson is the author of Machine Learning in Action from Manning. He leads us through the process of compiling data, building algorithms, and learning Machine Learning. Panel Charles Max Wood Guest Ben Wilson Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Picks Ben- ...
03.16.2021 ML 023: Inside Machine Learning with Edward Raff We have a new panelist! Plus, Edward Raff joins the Adventure to discuss his new book Inside Machine Learning. He walks us through Convolutional Neural Networks and then talks us through to build, train, and use them to solve problems ...
03.09.2021 BONUS: How Charles Max Wood Started Podcasting -- And You Can Too Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He ...
03.02.2021 BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, ...
02.23.2021 ML 022: Machine Learning with TensorFlow Chris Mattmann Chris explains how Tensorflow has grown over the last several years and the how it can be used to build and grow Machine Learning Systems. He explains the different algorithms you can use and the different types of problems it ...
02.16.2021 ML 021: Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning with Miguel Morales Miguel Morales is a Machine Learning engineer at Lockheed Martin and teaches at Georgia Institute of Technology. This episode starts with a basic explanation of Reinforcement Learning. Miguel then talks through the various methods of implementing and training systems through ...
02.05.2021 BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
02.05.2021 BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.
02.02.2021 ML 020: How to Make an Impact on the Development Community Charles Max Wood takes a solo flight into how to make an impact on the development community and build the career you want at the same time. Chuck starts out summarizing his journey over the last year or so and ...
01.26.2021 ML 019: Artificial Intelligence as a Service with Peter Elger and Eóin Shanaghy Peter Elger and Eóin Shanaghy join Charles Max Wood to dive into what Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning related services are available for people to use. Peter and Eóin are experts in AWS and explain what is provided in its ...
01.19.2021 ML 018: Mastering Data Pipelines with Apache Spark with Jean-Georges Perrin Jean-Georges Perrin compares Apache Spark to an operating system for data management. He explains how it can be used to pull data from disparate data sources, process the data, feed it into Machine Learning algorithms and stream the data out ...
01.12.2021 ML 017: The Nature of the World and AI with Rishal Hurbans Rishal Hurbans is the author of Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms. He walks us through how to learn different Machine Learning algorithms. He also then walks us through the different types of algorithms based on different natural systems and processes. Panel ...
01.05.2021 ML 016: Python as a Basis for Machine Learning with Ken Youens-Clark Ken Youens-Clark regales us with his history through Jazz, Microsoft Tech, and Python and bioinformatics. Regular expressions are a fundamental part of data identification and cleaning. Also, we touch on the importance of types and tests as a specification for ...
01.01.2021 BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021 Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals. Mani ...
12.29.2020 ML 015: Extracting Value from Data with Alexey Grigorev Alexey Grigorev is the lead data scientist for one of the biggest classified ads companies in the world. He walks us through gathering, mining, and understanding data to improve things. One big component of this is Machine Learning. It optimizes ...
12.23.2020 ML 014: Deep Learning with Structured Data with Mark Ryan Mark Ryan is the lead Data Scientist for an insurance company in Toronto. He walks us through the ins and outs of structured data, how to manage it, and how to build Machine Learning systems. His book walks the reader ...
11.27.2020 BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused ...
11.17.2020 ML 013: Recommender Systems with Frank Kane In this episode of Adventures in Machine Learning, the amazing author and course creator Frank Kane entertains our panel with information and examples. Beril Sirmacek, Gant Laborde, Daniel Svoboda, & Charles Wood talk with Frank Kane about recommender systems. The ...
11.03.2020 ML 012: Machine Learning for Mere Mortals with Nick Chase Nick Chase is the author of the video series “Machine Learning for Mere Mortals.” He helps break down some of the misconceptions about how complicated Machine Learning is and the magical parts of the science. He and the panelists then ...
10.27.2020 ML 011: History of AI in the UK with Laurence Moroney In this episode of Adventures in Machine Learning, the panelists chat with Laurence Moroney about the history of AI in the UK. We talk about the AI overlords, ethics, and the need for teaching. Industry revolutions and how we can ...
10.20.2020 ML 010: Brains, Guitars, and JavaScript with Milecia McGregor In this episode of Adventures in Machine Learning, Charles and Gant chat with Milecia about applying AI to UI/UX and the conversation takes a creative turn as they discuss plenty of other fun-filled and exciting topics she’s working on. There’s ...
10.13.2020 ML 009: Effective Machine Learning in Academia and Industry with Hassan Kane In this week’s episode of Adventures in Machine Learning we have Hassan Kane, data scientist lead at Entropy Labs. Hassan discusses his journey from being raised in Ivory Coast, Africa to getting his education in computer science from MIT, to ...
10.06.2020 ML 008: TensorFlow.js and YOU with Jason Mayes TensorFlow is a machine learning library that allows a user to program deep learning architectures. It is normally associated with backend programming languages like Python and is written in C++, but what if you can utilize it in Javascript to ...
09.29.2020 ML 007: Computer Vision & AI Scientist with Beril Sirmacek Beril Sirmacek is a data scientist and an assistant professor at Jonkoping University. She explains what computer vision is, what type of projects are done with it, and her own work regarding it. Sponsors Machine Learning for Software Engineers by ...
09.22.2020 ML 006: Mad Science AI with Benson Ruan Benson Ruan talks about his experiences as a machine learning tech lead for a fintech company in Sydney, Australia. He goes over his education in machine learning from Coursera, especially doing Andrew Ng’s deep learning course that started his journey ...
09.15.2020 ML 005: Transfer Learning for NLP with Daniel Svoboda One of the hottest fields right now in machine learning is natural language processing. Whether it’s getting sentiment from tweets, summarizing your documents, sarcasm detection, or predicting stock trends from the news, NLP is definitely the wave of the future. ...
09.11.2020 ML 004: Automated Machine Learning ML with Jorge Torres Implementing deep learning algorithms require knowledge of various DL libraries, how to interface outside files or streaming data to it, along with tuning all sorts of parameters. Deep Learning also does not give you much explanation on what features contribute ...
09.10.2020 ML 003: Your GPU Brain with Robert Plummer Machine learning is a complex subject that requires knowledge in many various subjects such as linear algebra, probability, algorithms, calculus, etc. But what if you could simplify machine learning to the extent that a child would be able to grasp ...
09.09.2020 ML 002: DeOldify Your Life with Jason Antic GANS are one of the revolutionary breakthroughs in machine/deep learning as they are able to create authentic facial images. One of the latest breakthroughs has been with reconstructing actual images of the Roman Emperors using their busts and frescos. Special ...

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