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Join Doug Turnbull’s ‘ML Powered Search’ Live Cohort
Sponsored Post Sign up for Doug Turnbull’s exclusive live cohort, starting October 11. Previous Sphere cohorts have had students from Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Microsoft, Twitter, Shopify, Glassdoor, and more. Doug leads the entire Search Relevance practice at Shopify. He has spent the last 10+ years writing industry-leading books such as “Relevant Search” (2016) […]
Interactive ML Strategy course with Foster Provost starting April 7
Sponsored Post Building successful machine learning products requires mastering ML Strategy, including problem formulation, evaluation, and tactics for dealing with stakeholders and project uncertainties. Many ML projects fail not for technical reasons, but because of poor understanding of the difference between doing ML well technically and actually realizing business impact with an ML solution. Professor […]
What is Calculus?
Calculus is the mathematical study of change. The effectiveness of calculus to solve a complicated but continuous problem lies in its ability to slice the problem into infinitely simpler parts, solve them separately, and subsequently rebuild them into the original whole. This strategy can be applied to study all continuous elements that can be sliced […]
Calculus Books for Machine Learning
Knowledge of calculus is not required to get results and solve problems in machine learning or deep learning. However, knowing some calculus will help you in a number of ways, such as in reading mathematical notation in books and papers, and in understanding the terms used to describe fitting models like “gradient,” and in understanding […]
Data Science From Scratch: Book Review
Programmers learn by implementing techniques from scratch. It is a type of learning that is perhaps slower than other types of learning, but fuller in that all of the micro decisions involved become intimate. The implementation is owned from head to tail. In this post we take a close look at Joel Grus popular book […]
How I Got Started In Machine Learning
I get a lot of emails asking about how I got interested in machine learning and about my background. I don’t think my story is special or interesting, but I’m happy to share it and honored I’m asked. This post feels a little self-indulgent. I figure it can be the definitive version of my story […]
Machine Learning for Money
A question I get asked a lot is: How can I make money with machine learning? You can get a job with your machine learning skills as a machine learning engineer, data analyst or data scientist. That is the goal of a great many people that contact me. There are also other options. In this […]
Bootstrapping Machine Learning: Book Review
Louis Dorard has released his book titled Bootstrapping Machine Learning. It’s a book that provides a gentle introduction to the field of machine learning targeted at developers and start-ups with a focus on prediction APIs. I just finished reading this book and I want to share some my thoughts. If you are interested, I have […]
Project Spotlight: Face Recognition with Shashank Singh
This is a project spotlight with Shashank Singh a programmer and machine learning enthusiast. Could you please introduce yourself? I did Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science. I co-founded a startup at 23, spectacularly crashed it by 26th birthday. After that I was feeling particularly low and pretty dry of inspiration for quite some time. I […]