Machine Learning Cafe

In this episode, our guest was Balázs Kégl who is head of AI Research at Huawei Paris. We were talking about machine learning projects from the organizational point of view. We talked about the relationship between technical and non-technical people, and why are there so many POC projects why only a few of them is productionised? So, if you are a data scientist and you cannot convince your manager or your client to create a project, you should definitely listen to this episode. Moreover, we talked about some technical stuff at the end.

Connect Balazs at Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balazskegl/

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

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We continue with a micro-series, where we talk about alternative learning methods. In the first episode of this micro-series our guest is Dmitry Krotov, Researcher at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and IBM Research in Cambridge. Among many things, we will talk about an unusual learning rule, which has a degree of biological plausibility.

Find Dmitry on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krotovdmitry/

Paper: Unsupervised Learning by Competing Hidden Units https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10181

Paper: Local Unsupervised Learning for Image Analysis: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08993

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

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In this "extra" episode, our guest is Denis Rothman, who is an Artificial Intelligence Specialist. He has spent 40 years in this industry, he is the author of the book called "Artificial Intelligence by Example". He is a teacher, a speaker, and he is an exceptional expert. He has a very special view on what software development is and how to build-up systems that may or may not use artificial intelligence. We believe he is one of the brightest minds we have ever talked to. I think if you listen to this episode you will have new viewpoints of the world.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-rothman-0b034043/

Latest Book: https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Example-advanced-learning/dp/1839211539/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Artificial+Intelligence+by+Example&qid=1591873875&sr=8-1

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode, our guest was Vladimir Vlasov, who is a senior machine learning researcher at Rasa. If you don't know Rasa, it's a company that is building a standard infrastructure for conversational AI. Vladimir is working on Rasa's machine learning-based dialogue tools which allow developers to automate contextual conversations. So we were talking about state-of-the-art area of conversational AI and NLP, also briefly how Rasa’s framework is built up, and what are the technical problems to be solved, and what is the future of conversational AI.

Vladimir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-vv-vlasov/

Rasa: https://rasa.com/

Conference on 18th June: https://www.l3-ai.dev

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0V6493mLvqdiVwOKWBODQ

Algorithm Whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNMST6t1TA&list=PL75e0qA87dlG-za8eLI6t0_Pbxafk-cxb

Using Neural Networks to Find Answers in Tables: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/using-neural-networks-to-find-answers.html

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode, our guest is Eugene Dubossarsky, who is the chief data scientist at AlphaZetta and co-founder at multiple data science companies in Australia. He is a managing partner of the Global Training Academy and he is teaching too. Eugene is dealing with machine learning since the 80s, so you can imagine he has a very strong opinion about different topics in this industry. We talked about random forests, neural nets, boosting strategies, the importance of understanding data and statistics. We couldn't skip talking about the effects of the current and upcoming crisis either.

Eugene's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugene-dubossarsky-09208a1/

AlphaZetta: https://alphazetta.ai/

Reask Track cyclons: https://reask.earth/

The Prediction Machines book: https://www.predictionmachines.ai/

Hopfield network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopfield_network

Bengio talk: https://slideslive.com/38922304/from-system-1-deep-learning-to-system-2-deep-learning

Finnian Lattimore and Cheng Soon Ong Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.01488.pdf

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

We recorded an extra and special (business related) episode, our guest is Marco Lemessi, who is a Machine Learning leader at John Deere. He will share some of the business aspects and also problems of the machine learning projects they are facing at one of the biggest agricultural companies in the world. He spent 18 years at John Deere, so you can imagine that he has a very broad perspective about business cases and data science and optimization problems at John Deere. He will talk about precision agriculture, problems of labeling on large dataset, legal aspects of artificial intelligence.

Contact Marco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcolemessi/

Marco's email address: [email protected]

Website of John Deere: https://www.deere.com/

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode our guest is Abhishek Thakur, who is the Chief Data Scientist at Boost.ai in Norway. Abhishek has become the World’s first Quadruple Grandmaster on Kaggle. So we asked him about his experiences of the 150 competitions he has taken part in. So, what are the tricks here? How can someone participate in so many competitions, rank high and have a work besides these? Although he has been so successful you will see that he is a very humble person.

Find Abhishek on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi1thakur/

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

Abhishek's user on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/abhishek

Subscribe him on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AbhishekThakurAbhi

Website of Boost AI: https://www.boost.ai/

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode, our guest is Benedek Rozemberczki who is a Data Science Phd candidate at University of Edinburgh and also the owner of the github repo Karate Club where he implemented more than 30 scientific papers about Graphs and ML.

Karate Club:

https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/karateclub

Papers on Graph Classification:

https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/awesome-graph-classification

Papers on Node (Network) Embedding:

https://github.com/chihming/awesome-network-embedding

Papers on Graph Neural Networks:

https://github.com/naganandy/graph-based-deep-learning-literature

Papers on Graph Clustering:

https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/awesome-community-detection

Deep Learning on Graphs:

https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://www.dgl.ai/

Graph Kernels:

https://github.com/jajupmochi/graphkit-learn

Datasets

https://snap.stanford.edu/ https://ls11-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/staff/morris/graphkerneldatasets https://chrsmrrs.github.io/datasets/

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode our guest is Max Sklar who works as Engineering and Innovation Labs advisor at Foursquare. We talked about ratings and the problems about deciding if a rating is positive or negative, and the problems about different languages. In the second part of the show we talked about marketing attribution and causality.

Max’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-sklar-b638464/

The Local Max Radio (podcast): https://www.localmaxradio.com/

Publication Timely Tip Selection for Foursquare Recommendations: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1247/recsys14_poster18.pdf

Venue rating system blog post: https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/finding-the-perfect-10-how-we-developed-the-foursquare-venue-rating-system-c76b08f7b9b3

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode, my guest is Diganta Misra, who is the founder of Landskape AI, which is a research lab aimed at solving the most challenging questions of Deep Learning. Diganta is a Mathematician who invented the activation function called MISH, which beats Google's activation function called Swish in most computer vision tasks. He released his paper last summer and the project got already 600 stars on Github. He is already working on the next activation function called SharkFIN, which will be even better than MISH.

Contact Diganta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/misradiganta/ Diganta's Email: [email protected] Diganta's Github: github.com/digantamisra98 Diganta's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DigantaMisra1

Landskape AI webpage: landskape.org

MISH Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08681

MISH project on Github: https://github.com/digantamisra98/Mish

---General Info--- About the host: Miklos Toth is a Machine Learning enthusiast who is also teaching Machine Learning and Deep Learning at international companies, working on various ML projects as an engineer.

About the co-host: Levente Szabados is a Deep tech leader, consultant, and manager with a special interest in artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, data science, and deep learning. He is teaching various ML courses at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

About the podcast: The podcast was created to serve the technical community with details of ML algorithms, use-cases. The episodes are recorded in Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

Website of the podcast: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Co-Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/ Write an email to the host: [email protected] Equipment: On the host's side the show is recorded with Rode Procaster and with Roland Quad-Capture audio interface.

---Copyright Info--- Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)