November 11, 2017

Episode 29: Fail your AI company in 9 steps

In order to succeed with artificial intelligence, it is better to know how to fail first. It is easier than you think.Here are 9 easy steps to fail your AI startup.
October 30, 2017

Episode 27: Techstars accelerator and the culture of fireflies

In the aftermath of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars experience, one of the most innovative and influential startup accelerators in the world, I’d like to give back to the community lessons learned, including the need for confidence, soft-s...
October 23, 2017

Episode 26: Deep Learning and Alzheimer

In this episode I speak about Deep Learning technology applied to Alzheimer disorder prediction. I had a great chat with Saman Sarraf, machine learning engineer at Konica Minolta, former lab manager at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Universit...
October 9, 2017

Episode 24: How to handle imbalanced datasets

In machine learning and data science in general it is very common to deal at some point with imbalanced datasets and class distributions. This is the typical case where the number of observations that belong to one class is significantly lower than those...
October 3, 2017

Episode 23: Why do ensemble methods work?

Ensemble methods have been designed to improve the performance of the single model, when the single model is not very accurate. According to the general definition of ensembling, it consists in building a number of single classifiers and then combining o...
September 25, 2017

Episode 22: Parallelising and distributing Deep Learning

Continuing the discussion of the last two episodes, there is one more aspect of deep learning that I would love to consider and therefore left as a full episode, that is parallelising and distributing deep learning on relatively large clusters. As a matt...
September 18, 2017

Episode 21: Additional optimisation strategies for deep learning

In the last episode How to master optimisation in deep learning I explained some of the most challenging tasks of deep learning and some methodologies and algorithms to improve the speed of convergence of a minimisation method for deep learning. I explor...
August 28, 2017

Episode 20: How to master optimisation in deep learning

The secret behind deep learning is not really a secret. It is function optimisation. What a neural network essentially does, is optimising a function. In this episode I illustrate a number of optimisation methods and explain which one is the best and why...