Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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August 24, 2021Exploring a new AI lexicon
We’re back with another Fully Connected episode – Daniel and Chris dive into a series of articles called ‘A New AI Lexicon’ that collectively explore alternate narratives, positionalities, and understandings to the better known and widely circulated ways of talking about AI. The fun begins early as they discuss and debate ‘An Electric Brain’ with strong opinions, and consider viewpoints that aren’t always popular.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
A New AI Lexicon
A New AI Lexicon: An Electric Brain
A New AI Lexicon: Function Creep
A New AI Lexicon: Smart
A New AI Lexicon: Artificial Identity Cataracts
A New AI Lexicon: Imbrication
Books
Free 500+ PDF “Applications of Deep Neural Networks with Keras” book from Jeff Heaton, who is teaching this course at Washington University in St. Louis
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45 min
August 17, 2021NLP to help pregnant mothers in Kenya
In Kenya, 33% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in seeking care, and 55% of maternal deaths are caused by delays in action or inadequate care by providers. Jacaranda Health is employing NLP and dialogue system techniques to help mothers experience childbirth safely and with respect and to help newborns get a safe start in life. Jay and Sathy from Jacaranda join us in this episode to discuss how they are using AI to prioritize incoming SMS messages from mothers and help them get the care they need.

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Featuring:
Jay Patel – LinkedIn
Sathy Rajasekharan – LinkedIn
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Jacaranda Health video
Jacaranda Health article
Jacaranda Health website
How AI helps mothers in Kenya get the care they need, faster (article)
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45 min
August 10, 2021SLICED - will you make the (data science) cut?
SLICED is like the TV Show Chopped but for data science. Competitors get a never-before-seen dataset and two-hours to code a solution to a prediction challenge. Meg and Nick, the SLICED show hosts, join us in this episode to discuss how the show is creating much needed data science community. They give us a behind the scenes look at all the datasets, memes, contestants, scores, and chat of SLICED.

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LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
Featuring:
Meg Risdal – Website, LinkedIn, X
Nick Wan – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Be sure to tune in to the SLICED semifinals August 10th and the SLICED championships August 17th!
SLICED links:
Twitch stream
YouTube
SLICED Notion site
Towards Data Science interview about SLICED
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49 min
August 03, 2021AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵
AI is being used to transform the most personal instrument we have, our voice, into something that can be “played.” This is fascinating in and of itself, but Yotam Mann from Never Before Heard Sounds is doing so much more! In this episode, he describes how he is using neural nets to process audio in real time for musicians and how AI is poised to change the music industry forever.

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Featuring:
Yotam Mann – Website, GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Never Before Heard Sounds
Yotam’s personal website
Holly+
Real Time Hardware for Audio Processing
gan.style
Onsets and Frames (Piano Transcription)
DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
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46 min
July 27, 2021Building a data team
Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story”, Chris and Daniel discuss all things AI/data team building. They share some stories from their experiences kick starting AI efforts at various organizations and weight the pro and cons of things like centralized data management, prototype development, and a focus on engineering skills.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
“Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story” by Erik Bernhardsson
Books
“Cracking The Data Code” by Mike Bugembe
“Data Driven” by DJ Patil and Hilary Mason
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46 min
July 20, 2021Towards stability and robustness
9 out of 10 AI projects don’t end up creating value in production. Why? At least partly because these projects utilize unstable models and drifting data. In this episode, Roey from BeyondMinds gives us some insights on how to filter garbage input, detect risky output, and generally develop more robust AI systems.

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Featuring:
Roey Mechrez – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
NVIDIA GTC21 Talk on “Addressing Garbage In Garbage Out”
BeyondMinds
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49 min
July 13, 2021From symbols to AI pair programmers 💻
How did we get from symbolic AI to deep learning models that help you write code (i.e., GitHub and OpenAI’s new Copilot)? That’s what Chris and Daniel discuss in this episode about the history and future of deep learning (with some help from an article recently published in ACM and written by the luminaries of deep learning).

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
ACM article: “Deep Learning for AI”
GitHub Copilot
Books
“Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning” by Robert (Munro) Monarch (use podpracticalAI19 for 40% off)
“A Thousand Brains” by Jeff Hawkins
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49 min
June 22, 2021Vector databases for machine learning
Pinecone is the first vector database for machine learning. Edo Liberty explains to Chris how vector similarity search works, and its advantages over traditional database approaches for machine learning. It enables one to search through billions of vector embeddings for similar matches, in milliseconds, and Pinecone is a managed service that puts this capability at the fingertips of machine learning practitioners.

Sponsors:
PSSC Labs – Solutions from PSSC Labs provide a cost effective, highly secure, and performance guarantee that organizations need to reach their AI and Machine Learning Goals. Learn more and and get a FREE consultation today at pssclabs.com/practicalai
Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Edo Liberty – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Pinecone | Website
Pinecone | Twitter
Pinecone | LinkedIn
TheNextPlatform - It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Vector Databases
TheNewStack - Pinecone: A Vector Database for Machine Learning Applications
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43 min
June 15, 2021Multi-GPU training is hard (without PyTorch Lightning)
William Falcon wants AI practitioners to spend more time on model development, and less time on engineering. PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for high-performance AI research that lets you train on multiple-GPUs, TPUs, CPUs and even in 16-bit precision without changing your code! In this episode, we dig deep into Lightning, how it works, and what it is enabling. William also discusses the Grid AI platform (built on top of PyTorch Lightning). This platform lets you seamlessly train 100s of Machine Learning models on the cloud from your laptop.

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Featuring:
William Falcon – Website, GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
PyTorch Lightning | Website
PyTorch Lightning | Twitter
PyTorch Lightning | LinkedIn
PyTorch Lightning | GitHub
Grid.ai | Website
Grid.ai | Twitter
Grid.ai | LinkedIn
Grid AI, From the Makers of PyTorch Lightning, Emerges From Stealth With $18.6m Series A to Close the Gap Between AI Research and Production
Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production

Grid.ai Launches Platform to Train Machine Learning Models in the Cloud
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47 min
June 08, 2021Learning to learn deep learning 📖
Chris and Daniel sit down to chat about some exciting new AI developments including wav2vec-u (an unsupervised speech recognition model) and meta-learning (a new book about “How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World”). Along the way they discuss engineering skills for AI developers and strategies for launching AI initiatives in established companies.

Sponsors:
O'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. Just open your browser and dive in. Learn more and keep your teams’ skills sharp at oreilly.com/changelog
Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com.
Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
High-performance speech recognition with no supervision at all
deeplearning.ai MLOps course
GitHub MLOps resources
Books
“Cracking The Data Code” by Mike Bugembe
“Meta Learning” by Radek Osmulski
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44 min

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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more).