Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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Practical AI episodes

March 23, 2021Recommender systems and high-frequency trading
David Sweet, author of “Tuning Up: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization”, introduces Dan and Chris to system tuning, and takes them from A/B testing to response surface methodology, contextual bandit, and finally bayesian optimization. Along the way, we get fascinating insights into recommender systems and high-frequency trading!

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Featuring:
David Sweet – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Books
“Experimentation for Engineers” by David Sweet
Tuning Up | GitHub
Manning 40% discount code: podpracticalAI19
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44 min
March 09, 2021Deep learning technology for drug discovery
Our Slack community wanted to hear about AI-driven drug discovery, and we listened. Abraham Heifets from Atomwise joins us for a fascinating deep dive into the intersection of deep learning models and molecule binding. He describes how these methods work and how they are beginning to help create drugs for “undruggable” diseases!

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Code-ish by Heroku – A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer. Check out episode 98 and episode 99 for insights on the ethical and technical sides of deep fakes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Featuring:
Abe Heifets – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Atomwise
Atomwise Receives a $2.3M Grant to Develop New Therapies for Drug Resistant Malaria and Tuberculosis
Atomwise Partners with Global Research Teams to Pursue Broad-Spectrum Treatments Against COVID-19 and Future Coronavirus Outbreaks
World robotic soccer
Philadelphia chromosome
Alphafold
Canavan disease example:
Paper: “Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of a Critical Brain Enzyme Using a Homology Model and a Deep Convolutional Neural Network”
AtomNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Bioactivity Prediction in Structure-based Drug Discovery
[“Memorizing yesterday’s stock price” example](Most Ligand-Based Classification Benchmarks Reward Memorization Rather than Generalization)
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58 min
March 02, 2021Green AI 🌲
Empirical analysis from Roy Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Jesse Dodge (AI2) suggests the AI research community has paid relatively little attention to computational efficiency. A focus on accuracy rather than efficiency increases the carbon footprint of AI research and increases research inequality. In this episode, Jesse and Roy advocate for increased research activity in Green AI (AI research that is more environmentally friendly and inclusive). They highlight success stories and help us understand the practicalities of making our workflows more efficient.

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Code-ish by Heroku – A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer. Check out episode 98 and episode 99 for insights on the ethical and technical sides of deep fakes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Featuring:
Roy Schwartz – Website, X
Jesse Dodge – X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Green AI article in the communications of the ACM
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
Fine-Tuning Pretrained Language Models: Weight Initializations, Data Orders, and Early Stopping
Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for NLP
Reproducibility at EMNLP 2020
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1 hr 1 min
February 23, 2021Low code, no code, accelerated code, & failing code
In this Fully-Connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss low code / no code development, GPU jargon, plus more data leakage issues. They also share some really cool new learning opportunities for leveling up your AI/ML game!

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Follow up content from Rajiv Shah:
Running code and failing models
Rajiv’s previous episode
Lambda Lab’s GPU benchmarks
Machine Learning in Microsoft Excel
Deep Learning at the Speed of Light
MLCommons and MLCube:
Previous episode about MLCommons
MLCube project
Learning Resources:
Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course Is Now Free & Fully Online
TensorFlow Everywhere
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49 min
February 16, 2021The AI doc will see you now
Elad Walach of Aidoc joins Chris to talk about the use of AI for medical imaging interpretation. Starting with the world’s largest annotated training data set of medical images, Aidoc is the radiologist’s best friend, helping the doctor to interpret imagery faster, more accurately, and improving the imaging workflow along the way. Elad’s vision for the transformative future of AI in medicine clearly soothes Chris’s concern about managing his aging body in the years to come. ;-)

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Featuring:
Elad Walach – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Aidoc | Website
Aidoc Medical | LinkedIn
Aidoc | Twitter
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47 min
February 02, 2021Cooking up synthetic data with Gretel
John Myers of Gretel puts on his apron and rolls up his sleeves to show Dan and Chris how to cook up some synthetic data for automated data labeling, differential privacy, and other purposes. His military and intelligence community background give him an interesting perspective that piqued the interest of our intrepid hosts.

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Featuring:
John Myers – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Gretel | Website
Gretel | LinkedIn
Gretel | Twitter
Gretel | Slack
Gretel Synthetics | GitHub
Gretel Blueprints | GitHub
Gretel | Improving massively imbalanced datasets in machine learning with synthetic data
Gretel | Deep dive on generating synthetic data for Healthcare
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48 min
January 26, 2021The nose knows
Daniel and Chris sniff out the secret ingredients for collecting, displaying, and analyzing odor data with Terri Jordan and Yanis Caritu of Aryballe. It certainly smells like a good time, so join them for this scent-illating episode!

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Featuring:
Terri Jordan – LinkedIn, X
Yanis Caritu – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Aryballe
Aryballe | Twitter
Aryballe Hardware Solutions
Aryballe Software & Data Platform
How Machine Learning in Digital Olfaction Works
Readying Odor Data For Reproduction Using Machine Learning
Aryballe raises $7.9 million for odor-detecting AI sensors
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55 min
January 19, 2021Accelerating ML innovation at MLCommons
MLCommons launched in December 2020 as an open engineering consortium that seeks to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. David Kanter, the executive director of MLCommons, joins us to discuss the launch and the ambitions of the organization.
In particular we discuss the three pillars of the organization: Benchmarks and Metrics (e.g. MLPerf), Datasets and Models (e.g. People’s Speech), and Best Practices (e.g. MLCube).

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Code-ish by Heroku – A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer. Check out episode 98 and episode 99 for insights on the ethical and technical sides of deep fakes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
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Featuring:
David Kanter – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Learn more about People’s Speech
Get involved with the People’s Speech project
MLCube GitHub, including several different examples
MLCube Mailing list
MLPerf Training Benchmarks
MLPerf Training HPC Benchmarks
MLPerf Inference Datacenter Benchmarks
MLPerf Inference Edge Benchmarks
MLPerf Inference Mobile Benchmarks
MLCommons on Twitter
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52 min
January 11, 2021The $1 trillion dollar ML model 💵
American Express is running what is perhaps the largest commercial ML model in the world; a model that automates over 8 billion decisions, ingests data from over $1T in transactions, and generates decisions in mere milliseconds or less globally. Madhurima Khandelwal, head of AMEX AI Labs, joins us for a fascinating discussion about scaling research and building robust and ethical AI-driven financial applications.

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Code-ish by Heroku – A podcast from the team at Heroku, exploring code, technology, tools, tips, and the life of the developer. Check out episode 98 and episode 99 for insights on the ethical and technical sides of deep fakes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
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Featuring:
Madhurima Khandelwal – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
AMEX AI Labs research
O’Reilly article about “doing good data science”
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49 min
December 21, 2020Getting in the Flow with Snorkel AI
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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LaunchDarkly – Power experimentation at any scale. Fast and reliable feature management for the modern enterprise.
Featuring:
Braden Hancock – Website, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Snorkel AI
Snorkel OSS
Snorkel Blog
Snorkel AI | Twitter
Snorkel AI | LinkedIn
Snorkel Best of VLDB paper
Snorkel Drybell collaboration with Google
Jerod recommends
Getting Waymo into autonomous driving (Drago Anguelov)
Building the world’s most popular data science platform (Peter Wang)
Achieving provably beneficial, human-compatible AI (Stuart Russell)
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47 min

About Practical AI

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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).