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Dec 06, 2022

I am excited to share my new course, Deep Learning Fundamentals -- Learning Deep Learning With a Modern Open Source Stack! I've been teaching machine learning and deep learning for many years. In this course, I am taking the best parts, modernize them, and make them more accessible. Plus, I am going to cover topics that are often skipped in other resources: multi-GPU training, self-supervised learning, learning rate schedulers, and many more!

Deep Learning Fundamentals



Nov 07, 2022

I am looking forward to NeurIPS 2022 next month! I will be co-organizing a socials workshop ("Industry, Academia, and the In-Betweens") on making the transition from academia to industry. It's open to everyone who is interested! Stop by and say hello! More infos about the event here.



October 10, 2022

I am excited to announce the launch of my newsletter, "Ahead of AI!" It features insights into recent AI trends, research paper discussions, educational nuggets, productivity hacks, open source projects, humor & more. You can check out "Issue #1 - A Diffusion of Innovations" here.

Ahead of AI newsletter



August 4, 2022

Many real-world prediction problems have ordered categories! If you are interested in learning more about "Using Deep Learning When Class Labels Have A Natural Order," my SciPy 2022 talk is now online!

SciPy 2022 Ordinal Regression



July 11, 2022

Happy Birthday, Anaconda! Was honored to be invited to the open-source and numerical computing panel at Anaconda's 10 year anniversary event!
🎥 You can find the recording here!

Anaconda 10 Year anniversary



July 8, 2022

MLxtend (Machine learning library extensions) library was categorized as a critical Python project!

PyPI Critical Project



June 16, 2022

We just launched Lighting AI today! Head over to lightning.ai to learn more about Lightning Apps, which enable you build everything from production-ready, multi-cloud ML systems to simple research demos.



May 23, 2022

IDEs, the terminal, Git+GitHub,... what do these have in common? They make us more productive and they are things I wish I had known when I started out in machine learning. William Falcon and I are excited to cover these tools in our Lightning Bits: Engineering for Researchers video series. !

The Data Exchange Podcast



May 12, 2022

Ben Lorica and I had fun discussing resources and libraries available to developers & software engineers who want to start using and deploying machine learning and deep learning. You can find it on The Data Exchange Podcast and YouTube!

The Data Exchange Podcast



May 10, 2022

The recordings of our talk "Introduction to PyTorch and Scaling PyTorch Code with LightningLite" is now on YouTube. You can check it out as a 3-part series here:

  1. Introduction to PyTorch
  2. Scaling PyTorch Code with LightingLite
  3. Q&A

Data Umbrella Talk



Apr 22, 2022

Had a fun time chatting with Rob Stevenson on How AI Happens! Machine learning in academia vs industry, when to use machine learning vs deep learning, and yes, TensorFlow vs PyTorch ... we got it all covered.
[Apple Podcasts link] [Spotify link]

How AI Happens Podcast




Apr 21, 2022

My colleague Adrian and I will be giving a talk on developing deep neural networks in PyTorch and how to scale them using LightningLite. The talk is on May 10th and free to attend, you can sign up on meetup.com here.

Data Umbrella Talk




Apr 15, 2022

Just had a fun chat with Jay on his podcast where we talked about machine learning vs. deep learning, tools, interpretable machine learning, and more!

Jay Shah Podcast




Apr 1, 2022

Excited to share our latest research! The cyclemoid activation function is inspired by cyclical learning rates and has nice mathematical properties to stabilize gradients. We achieved SOTA on several benchmarks!

The cyclemoid function




Mar 31, 2022

Two years & twenty authors! Check out the fruitful outcome of our massive collaboration: Ten Quick Tips for Deep Learning in Biology.

10 Tips for Deep Learning in Biology




Mar 28, 2022

Hey everyone, I'm so excited to share my recent interview on Advancing Hands-On Machine Learning Education with Sam Charrington for the TwiML.ai podcast. Check it out!

twimlai podcast




Feb 28, 2022

I am doing a little AMA on reddit @ r/MachineLearning this upcoming Friday (March 4th).

Happy to chat about my new book, academic research, or what I am currently up to at Grid.ai and PyTorch Lightning!




Feb 15, 2022

Only 10 more days until my new book, Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn is going to be released!

I couldn't be more excited, and together with Tushar Gupta at Packt, we will have a Book Launch livestream on February 23 (10:00 am ET), which will be streamed on LinkedIn and YouTube. You can sign up for a reminder here!

Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn live event




Feb 10, 2022

Really excited about the ReWork Deep Learning Summit in SF this week! It's been several years since I attended a conference, and I am really looking forward to it!

If you happen to be there, my colleagues at Grid.ai and PyTorch Lightning would be excited to chat about deep learning & AI!

PS: I am also giving a talk there on Thu at 9:35 am PT: "Customer Ratings, Letter Grades, and Other Rankings -- Using Deep Learning When Class Labels Have A Natural Order"

ReWork conference title slide




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