Data Elixir - Issue 460

Simplifying git. Interview red flags. Deep learning algos. Malloy data. Remote sensing data. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

ISSUE 460 · November 7, 2023   Innovation Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk Last week, President Biden issued an Executive Order that seeks to limit how far AI technology can go. 😮. In this post, Steven Sinofsky dives into the issues and explores how ultimately, President Biden's approach is counter-productive and will stifle innovation. Great post. Hardcore Software | Steven Sinofsky   Profile How AI Learns to See Without Eyes Computer scientist Alexei Efros suffers from poor eyesight, which gives him a unique perspective about learning to see. At the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, Efros combines massive data sets with machine learning algorithms to understand, model and re-create the visual world. Quanta Magazine   Sponsored Link More-efficient recovery from failures during large-ML-model training "Checkpointing" saves parameters of large ML models so hardware and software failures won't derail training. Amazon researchers describe a checkpointing scheme using CPU memory instead of remote storage, reducing the time wasted on failure recovery by 92%.       Reach Data Elixir readers by sponsoring an issue. Click here for details.   Posts & Tutorials Malloy Data If you knew all the things you know about data, and about programming with data, and about programming languages in general, and you were designing a query language today, what would it look like? Alex Mackenzie   A Gentle Introduction to GDAL: Transforming Data In the latest post in his Introduction to GDAL series, Rob Simmon demonstrates a few methods for using GDAL to transform raw satellite data into usable information. There's also a fair bit of background here on remote sensing data and some of its nuances. This is a great series! Robert Simmon   Red Flags to Watch for in Data Analyst Job Interviews Good interviews go both ways. Just as employers are evaluating you, you need to assess if they're a good fit for you. Here are some good questions to ask and things to watch for.  Margaret Efron   Confusing git terminology Git is a version control system that's increasingly used in data science projects but it's not intuitive to work with. In her latest post, Julia Evans demystifies some of the most commonly confused aspects of git. Julia Evans   Tools & Code cluestar Cluestar is a python library that contains visualization tools to help you get started with classification tasks. The idea is that if you can inspect clusters easily, you might gain a clue on good labels for your dataset. GitHub | Vincent D. Warmerdam   Resources Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning This in-depth introduction to deep learning algorithms is intended for students and practionerers alike. At more than 500 pages, it covers a wide variety of topics, including ANNs, approximation, optimization, generalization, error analysis, and more. arXiv | Arnulf Jentzen, et al.     How did you like this issue of Data Elixir? 👎    1     2     3     4     5   👍         You're getting the free version of Data Elixir. Upgrade to get monthly deep dives and access to Data Pilot, the AI data expert that's built from Data Elixir's archives. Get 24x7 assistance with data-related research, coding, troubleshooting, and analysis. Upgrade now to lock-in rates 👉     Data Elixir, LLC P.O. Box 21255 Boulder, CO 80308 Data Elixir® is curated and maintained by Lon Riesberg. If you have questions or suggestions, just reply back to this email. Unsubscribe