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Gradient Descent is the most widely used optimization strategy in machine learning and deep learning. Whenever the question comes to train data models, gradient descent is joined with other algorithms and easy to implement and understand. There is a common understanding that whoever wants to work with machine learning must understand the concepts in detail.

This article will also try to curate the information available with us from different sources, as a result, you will learn the basics. This week, I have got a task in my MSc AI course on gradient descent.

1. Introduction to Gradient Descent
2. What is Gradient Descent?
3. How does it work?
4. Types of Gradient Descent

Gradient Descent for Machine Learning - A Beginners Playbook (otechtalks.tv)

Digital transformation is key during and post-COVID-19 enterprise resilience. COVID-19 forces the biggest acceleration in Digital Transformation. The world has changed post-COVID-19, and we all are going through it. The truth is it will keep changing, and we need to adapt to this, we need to transform our businesses, services to play our role in shaping the 'new normal of the world – our world. I will start with my own experiences for digital transformation, what I have observed. before starting this, want to highlight the earlier session we had during April 2020 on COVID-19 Pandemic and acceleration of Digital Transformation

Last week, I went to the local hospital for my routine checkup. At the reception desk, where usually I have to present the ID card and get the queue number for consultancy, after all the process, the front office executive didn't give me the token number. Which we use to get on each visit, and then based on this number, you are supposed to go to the concerned doctor's room for consultancy. Instead of giving me the token she said, you have got it through the SMS, check your mobile number, and that was surprising to me, innovation

What you, me, and everyone is observing is that COVID-19 is the wake-up call and leaders have to stop talking the talk about digital transformation, and they have to start walking the walk. Digital transformation has always inspired everyone in the business and the consumer world; however, embracing the transformation has been tremendously slowed in some of the sectors, and in some of the sectors, it was reasonably acceptable. Now the old question, from where the value is coming? During or after business transformation is gone as the organizations started living and showing the results during COVID-19. Now is the time and requirement is so urgent, and those organizations who are not able to transform will become irrelevant and uncompetitive or maybe to put in write words, they will not be in the market.

1. A Personal experience
2. How the post-COVID-19 World is Digital
3. Four actions to take quickly
4. What you need to to do, 90-Days Plan to Make It Happen

• Open Tech Talk Sessions on Digital Transformation:
  • 64- Coronavirus Outbreak: Business continuity & IT Leaders priorities
  • 63- Digital transformation expectations vs. reality
  • 62- First 100 Days of Digital Transformation
  • 61- How to do Digital Maturity Assessment
  • 60- What is digital maturity and which digital maturity model to choose?
  • 59- Where to start in organization for Digital Transformation
  • 58- A leap from Information Technology to Business Technology
  • 57-Architecting an operating model for digital transformation
  • 56- A Digital Transformation Framework
  • 54-How to make a business case of Digital Transformation
  • 53- Human Resources and Digital transformation
  • 52- How you will know digital transformation is achieved
  • 51- Enterprise Architects for Success of Digital Transformation
  • 50- Is there an end to Digital Transformation?
  • 49-What is for 'me' in Digital Transformation? Part 2
  • 48- What is for 'me' in Digital Transformation? Part-1
  • 47-How to win at Digital Transformation
  • 46- Digital Transformation – it's all about culture
  • 45- How to Overcome Digital Transformation Challenges
  • 44-What are the challenges in Digital Transformation
  • 43-What other Organization are doing to achieve digital transformation
  • 42-How do you start a Digital Transformation
  • 41-What are the benefits of Digital Transformation?
  • 40-Why Digital Transformation is required?
  • 39-"What is digital transformation? Learning the basics"
• COVID-19 CIO Pulse Survey of PwC Strategy&
• A road map for post-COVID-19 growth
• The COVID-19 recovery will be digital: A plan for the first 90 days

We need a new experience to get educated, and this is also being realized by the schools, institutes, universities, and tech companies who are providing such tools and tech to help us to teach kids in the age of coronavirus. As we have witnessed from our own experience, some schools were able to train teachers, roll out remote learning quickly. On the other side, almost 1.18 billion children, according to UNESCO, are impacted by the COVID-19 schools, universities shut down. We need new tools and techniques to help us get educated kids and ourselves.

How they are bringing innovation for Immersive Learning with the use of Interactive Animations, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, 3D Contents to enhance learning competencies for all levels of learners.

Coming from a non-technical background and building a platform for the education sector and how they are managing the 30%-40% increase due to COVID-19.

Speaker has shared his experience from going almost bankrupt to coming out and serving the customers

73-How Immersive Learning experience helping educators with Rayvan Ho (otechtalks.tv)

Emerging technologies (blockchain, AI, IoT) helping the Governments to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak ranging from helping track the epidemic, clean hospitals, deliver supplies, and develop vaccines. Another way to look is during the COVID-19 pandemic, and technologies are playing a decisive role in keeping our world running wherever we all are lockdowns and quarantines. The patterns emerging from this situation by the use of these technologies will have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19.

Technological innovation has continuously increased efficiency, lowered costs, and created new opportunities for businesses to meet customer, consumer, and citizen demands with digitization and transformation. Blockchain is at the forefront to provide alternatives to fight Covid-19 by offering organizations an opportunity to utilize blockchain technologies to achieve and provide services in these unpredicted times.

How the journey so far, starting in the first quarter of 2018 when there was no industry at all on decentralized finance, and how it is growing tenfold? Learn strategies from the owner of a startup, how he overcomes the blockchain challenges to build a platform for trust.

Coming from a non-technical background and building a platform on blockchain technology to offer a decentralized finance solution. You will hear the process outlined, from writing the white paper to start coding the MVP and what are the major challenge they have faced after launching the product.

Speaker has shared his experience on how smart contracts are changing the fin-tech industry and helping them to build a financial trust system.

72-Benefits of Decentralized Finance on Blockchain Platform with Jason Wu (otechtalks.tv)

Chatbot uses artificial intelligence & natural language processing to understand what a human wants, and guides them for the action that they are looking for in software applications. Chatbots are helping all businesses to deliver customer services in these difficult times. AI chatbots or digital assistants are taking control of customer service. Covid-19 is accelerating digital transformation in an industry that was already automating work at a rapid pace.

Governments and businesses are deploying digital assistants, chatbot to address citizens, customers most common questions, for example how to identify symptoms of COVID-19 or how to get tested, where the testing facility is available. These chatbots are making it easy for the agencies to update and expand the chatbot's responses as queries evolved. This is all happened to handle the influx of calls which has resulted due to coronavirus crisis, grocery stores, retail outlets, banks to healthcare providers, everyone started exploring how they can use digital assistant/ chatbot to manage this unprecedented times. The number of hospitals are trying to find ways how they can deploy a conversational mobile chatbot to help with intake forms and remote check-ins for both in-person and telehealth visits rather than staff sitting and facing the patients to avoid contact due to COVID-19. The chatbots will be able to give patients tech advice when they are using telemedicine. When used at physical locations, the chatbots will be able to tell patients when to go directly into the physician room. The traditional pre-visit process of walking into the clinic, hospital, filling out paper forms, reading instructions, and then waiting for a physician's room is changing.

Earlier session on OTechTalks was covered during July 2017, Chatbots Basics 101, the role of Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning and to access in presentation format from the post What are Chatbots? Beginner's Guide To Chatbots.

Today we have our guest speaker & special thanks to Tarek Osman for joining me this week. Until next time!

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Speaker has shared his experience on what challenges they have faced and how they are managing the supply-chain process.