Jared Lander, the organizer of NYHackR and general data science guru, joined us to talk about the landscape of AI techniques, how deep learning fits into that landscape, and why you might consider using R for ML/AI.

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• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Lander Analytics
• New York R Conference
• New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup

Books

• “R for Everyone” by Jared Lander
• “Applied Predictive Modeling” by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson
• “Deep Learning with R” by Francois Chollet and J. J. Allaire

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In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss the latest news, including an article about Google’s AI principles, and they highlight some useful resources to help you level up.

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• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• ACLU calls for a moratorium on government use of facial recognition technologies – TechCrunch
• Doing good data science - O’Reilly Media
• An Overview of National AI Strategies – Politics + AI – Medium
• Meet CIMON, the 1st Robot with Artificial Intelligence to Fly in Space
• AI at Google: our principles
• Foundations of Machine Learning
• Machine Learning Crash Course  |  Google Developers
• Best Laptop for Machine Learning - YouTube

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Andrew Vanderburg of UT Austin and Christ Shallue of Google Brain join us to talk about their deep learning collaboration, which involved searching through a crazy amount of space imagery to find new planets.

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• Chris Shallue – Website, GitHub
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Google AI Blog: Open Sourcing the Hunt for Exoplanets
• Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Exoplanet | NASA

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Matthew Carroll and Andrew Burt of Immuta talked with Daniel and Chris about data management for AI, how data regulation will impact AI, and schooled them on the finer points of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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• Andrew Burt – Website, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Introducing the world’s first data management platform for data science. - Immuta
• General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

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Amanda Ramcharan, Latifa Mrisho, and Peter McCloskey joined Daniel and Chris to talk about how Penn State University are collaborating to help African farmers increase their yields via a TensorFlow powered mobile app.

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• Latifa Mrisho – X
• Peter McCloskey – 
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• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Assessing a mobile-based deep learning model for plant disease surveillance
• Penn State-developed plant-disease app recognized by Google

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Mat Ryer and David Hernandez joined Daniel and Chris to talk about MachineBox, building a company around AI, and democratizing AI.

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• David Hernandez – GitHub, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• MachineBox

Books

• “Go Programming Blueprints” by Mat Ryer

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In this inaugural episode of Practical AI — Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo sit down with Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson to discuss their experiences in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science and what they hope to accomplish as hosts of this podcast.

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• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Symbolic artificial intelligence
• Deep learning
• Machine learning
• NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) - the premier AI and deep learning event from NVIDIA.

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