Best OCDevel Podcasts (2025)

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MLA 024 Code AI MCP Servers, ML Engineering 44:17

10d ago44:17

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Links Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-24 Try a walking desk stay healthy & sharp while you learn & code Try Descript audio/video editing with AI power-tools Tool Use in AI Code Agents File Operations: Agents can read, edit, and search files using sophisticated regular expressions. Executable Commands: They can recommend and perform insta…

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MLA 023 Code AI Models & Modes 38:15

10d ago38:15

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Links Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-23 Try a walking desk stay healthy & sharp while you learn & code Try Descript audio/video editing with AI power-tools Model Current Leaders According to the Aider Leaderboard (as of April 12, 2025), leading models include for vibe-coding: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25: most accurate and cost-effectiv…

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MLA 022 Code AI Tools 56:14

3M ago56:14

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Links Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-22 Try a walking desk stay healthy & sharp while you learn & code Try Descript audio/video editing with AI power-tools I currently favor Roo Code. Plus either gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 for Architect, Boomerang, or Code with large contexts. And Claude 3.7 for code with small contexts, eg Boomerang subt…

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MLG 033 Transformers 43:23

3M ago43:23

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Links: Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/33 3Blue1Brown videos: https://3blue1brown.com/ Try a walking desk stay healthy & sharp while you learn & code Try Descript audio/video editing with AI power-tools Background & Motivation RNN Limitations: Sequential processing prevents full parallelization—even with attention tweaks—making them ineffici…

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MLA 021 Databricks 26:00

3y ago26:00

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-21 Raybeam and Databricks: Ming Chang from Raybeam discusses Raybeam's focus on data science and analytics, and how their recent acquisition by Dept Agency has expanded their scope into ML Ops and AI. Raybeam often utilizes Databricks due to its comprehens…

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MLA 020 Kubeflow 1:08:12

3y ago1:08:12

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-20 Conversation with Dirk-Jan Kubeflow (vs cloud native solutions like SageMaker) Dirk-Jan Verdoorn - Data Scientist at Dept Agency Kubeflow. (From the website:) The Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes. The Kubeflow project is dedicated to making deplo…

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MLA 019 DevOps 1:14:53

3+ y ago1:14:53

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-19 Chatting with co-workers about the role of DevOps in a machine learning engineer's life Expert coworkers at Dept Matt Merrill - Principal Software Developer Jirawat Uttayaya - DevOps Lead The Ship It Podcast (where Matt features often) Devops tools Terr…

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MLA 017 AWS Local Development 1:04:19

3+ y ago1:04:19

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes: ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-17 Developing on AWS first (SageMaker or other) Consider developing against AWS as your local development environment, rather than only your cloud deployment environment. Solutions: Stick to AWS Cloud IDEs (Lambda, SageMaker Studio, Cloud9 Connect to deploye…

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MLA 016 SageMaker 2 59:57

3+ y ago59:57

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full note at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-16 Part 2 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps) MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.) SageMaker Jumpstart Deploy Pipelines Monito…

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MLA 015 SageMaker 1 47:01

3+ y ago47:01

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes Part 1 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps) MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.) SageMaker DataWrangler Feature Store Ground Truth Clarify Studio Aut…

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MLA 014 Machine Learning Server 52:05

4+ y ago52:05

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-14 Server-side ML. Training & hosting for inference, with a goal towards serverless. AWS SageMaker, Batch, Lambda, EFS, Cortex.devBy OCDevel

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MLA 013 Customer Facing Tech Stack 47:08

4+ y ago47:08

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-13 Client, server, database, etc.By OCDevel

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MLA 012 Docker 31:13

4+ y ago31:13

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-12 Use Docker for env setup on localhost & cloud deployment, instead of pyenv / Anaconda. I recommend Windows for your desktop.By OCDevel

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MLG 032 Cartesian Similarity Metrics 41:52

4+ y ago41:52

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/32. L1/L2 norm, Manhattan, Euclidean, cosine distances, dot product Normed distances link A norm is a function that assigns a strictly positive length to each vector in a vector space. link Minkowski is generalized. p_root(sum(xi-yi)^p). "p" = ? (1, 2, ..) for…

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MLA 011 Practical Clustering 34:23

4+ y ago34:23

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-11 Kmeans (sklearn vs FAISS), finding n_clusters via inertia/silhouette, Agglomorative, DBSCAN/HDBSCANBy OCDevel

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MLA 010 NLP packages: transformers, spaCy, Gensim, NLTK 25:47

4+ y ago25:47

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full note at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-10 NLTK: swiss army knife. Gensim: LDA topic modeling, n-grams. spaCy: linguistics. transformers: high-level business NLP tasks.By OCDevel

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MLA 009 Charting tools 24:14

6+ y ago24:14

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-9 matplotlib, Seaborn, Bokeh, D3, Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, ExcelBy OCDevel

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MLA 008 Exploratory Data Analysis 24:38

6+ y ago24:38

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-8 EDA + charting. DataFrame info/describe, imputing strategies. Useful charts like histograms and correlation matrices.By OCDevel

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MLA 007 Jupyter Notebooks 16:24

6+ y ago16:24

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-7 Run your code + visualizations in the browser: iPython / Jupyter Notebooks.By OCDevel

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MLA 006 Salary 19:07

7y ago19:07

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-6 Salary based on location, gender, age, tech... from O'Reilly.By OCDevel

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MLA 005 Shapes & Sizes 26:43

7y ago26:43

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-5 Dimensions, size, and shape of Numpy ndarrays / TensorFlow tensors, and methods for transforming those.By OCDevel

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MLA 003 Storage: HDF, Pickle, Postgres 17:17

7y ago17:17

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-3 Comparison of different data storage options when working with your ML models.By OCDevel

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MLA 002 Numpy & Pandas 17:41

7y ago17:41

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-2 Some numerical data nitty-gritty in Python.By OCDevel

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MLA 001 Certificates & Degrees 11:35

7y ago11:35

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-1 Reboot on the MLG episode, with more confident recommends.By OCDevel

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MLG 029 Reinforcement Learning Intro 43:21

7y ago43:21

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Introduction to reinforcement learning concepts. ocdevel.com/mlg/29 for notes and resources.By OCDevel

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MLG 028 Hyperparameters 2 51:07

7y ago51:07

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Notes and resources: ocdevel.com/mlg/28 Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! More hyperparameters for optimizing neural networks. A focus on regularization, optimizers, feature scaling, and hyperparameter search methods. Hyperparameter Search Techniques Grid Search involves testing all possible permutations of hyperparameters…

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MLG 027 Hyperparameters 1 47:04

7y ago47:04

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Full notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/27 Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Hyperparameters are crucial elements in the configuration of machine learning models. Unlike parameters, which are learned by the model during training, hyperparameters are set by humans before the learning process begins. They are the knobs a…

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MLG 026 Project Bitcoin Trader 38:40

7y ago38:40

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Ful notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/26 NOTE. This episode is no longer relevant, and tforce_btc_trader no longer maintained. The current podcast project is Gnothi. Episode Overview TForce BTC Trader Project: Trading Crypto Special: Intuitively highlights decisions: hypers, supervise…

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MLG 025 Convolutional Neural Networks 44:39

7+ y ago44:39

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/25 Filters and Feature Maps: Filters are small matrices used to detect visual features from an input image by applying them to local pixel patches, creating a 3D output called a feature map. Each filter is tasked with recognizing a specific pattern (e…

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MLG 024 Tech Stack 1:01:36

7+ y ago1:01:36

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/24 Hardware Desktop if you're stationary, as you'll get the best performance bang-for-buck and improved longevity; laptop if you're mobile. Desktops. Build your own PC, better value than pre-built. See PC Part Picker, make sure to use an Nvidia graphi…

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MLG 023 Deep NLP 2 43:04

7+ y ago43:04

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/23 Neural Network Types in NLP Vanilla Neural Networks (Feedforward Networks): Used for general classification or regression tasks. Examples include predicting housing costs or classifying images as cat, dog, or tree. Convolutional Neural Networks (CN…

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MLG 022 Deep NLP 1 49:40

7+ y ago49:40

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/22 Deep NLP Fundamentals Deep learning has had a profound impact on natural language processing by introducing models like recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that are specifically adept at handling sequential data. Unlike traditional linear models like …

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MLG 020 Natural Language Processing 3 40:45

8y ago40:45

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/20 NLP progresses through three main layers: text preprocessing, syntax tools, and high-level goals, each building upon the last to achieve complex linguistic tasks. Text Preprocessing Text preprocessing involves essential steps such as tokenization, …

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MLG 019 Natural Language Processing 2 1:05:54

8y ago1:05:54

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/19 Classical NLP Techniques: Origins and Phases in NLP History: Initially reliant on hardcoded linguistic rules, NLP's evolution significantly pivoted with the introduction of machine learning, particularly shallow learning algorithms, leading eventua…

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MLG 018 Natural Language Processing 1 58:08

8y ago58:08

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/18 Overview: Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of machine learning that focuses on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. It is a complex field that combines linguistics, computer science, and AI to process and …

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MLG 017 Checkpoint 8:08

8y ago8:08

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! At this point, browse #importance:essential on ocdevel.com/mlg/resources with the 45m/d ML, 15m/d Math breakdown.By OCDevel

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MLG 016 Consciousness 1:14:05

8y ago1:14:05

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/16 Inspiration in AI Development Early inspirations for AI development centered around solving challenging problems, but recent advancements like self-driving cars and automated scientific discoveries attract professionals due to potential economic automation …

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MLG 015 Performance 42:51

8y ago42:51

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/15 Concepts Performance Evaluation Metrics: Tools to assess how well a machine learning model performs tasks like spam classification, housing price prediction, etc. Common metrics include accuracy, precision, recall, F1/F2 scores, and confusion matrices. Accu…

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MLG 014 Shallow Algos 3 48:27

8y ago48:27

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/14 Anomaly Detection Systems Applications: Credit card fraud detection and server activity monitoring. Concept: Identifying outliers on a bell curve. Statistics: Central role of the Gaussian distribution (normal distribution) in detecting anomalies. Process: I…

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MLG 013 Shallow Algos 2 55:36

8y ago55:36

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/13 Support Vector Machines (SVM) Purpose: Classification and regression. Mechanism: Establishes decision boundaries with maximum margin. Margin: The thickness of the decision boundary, large margin minimizes overfitting. Support Vectors: Data points that the m…

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MLG 012 Shallow Algos 1 53:36

8y ago53:36

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/12 Topics Shallow vs. Deep Learning: Shallow learning can often solve problems more efficiently in time and resources compared to deep learning. Supervised Learning: Key algorithms include linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, and K Nearest …

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MLG 010 Languages & Frameworks 44:36

8y ago44:36

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/10 Topics: Recommended Languages and Frameworks: Python and TensorFlow are top recommendations for machine learning. Python's versatile libraries (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn) enable it to cover all areas of data science including data mining, analytics, and m…

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MLG 009 Deep Learning 51:28

8y ago51:28

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/9 Key Concepts: Deep Learning vs. Shallow Learning: Machine learning is broken down hierarchically into AI, ML, and subfields like supervised/unsupervised learning. Deep learning is a specialized area within supervised learning distinct from shallow learning a…

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MLG 008 Math 27:43

8y ago27:43

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/8 Mathematics in Machine Learning Linear Algebra: Essential for matrix operations; analogous to chopping vegetables in cooking. Every step of ML processes utilizes linear algebra. Statistics: The hardest part, akin to the cookbook; supplies algorithms for pred…

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MLG 007 Logistic Regression 34:40

8y ago34:40

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/7. See Andrew Ng Week 3 Lecture Notes Overview Logistic Function: A sigmoid function transforming linear regression output to logits, providing a probability between 0 and 1. Binary Classification: Logistic regression deals with binary outcomes, determining ei…

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MLG 006 Certificates & Degrees 15:57

8y ago15:57

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/6 Pursuing Machine Learning: Individuals may engage with machine learning for self-education, as a hobby, or to enter the industry professionally. Use a combination of resources, including podcasts, online courses, and textbooks, for a comprehensive self-learn…

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MLG 005 Linear Regression 34:00

8y ago34:00

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/5. See Andrew Ng Week 2 Lecture Notes Key Concepts Machine Learning Hierarchy: Explains the breakdown into supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning with an emphasis on supervised learning, which includes classification and regression. Supervised Le…

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MLG 004 Algorithms - Intuition 22:56

8y ago22:56

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/4 The AI Hierarchy Artificial Intelligence is divided into subfields such as reasoning, planning, and learning. Machine Learning is the learning subfield of AI. Machine learning consists of three phases: Predict (Infer) Error (Loss) Train (Learn) Core Intuitio…

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MLG 003 Inspiration 18:42

8y ago18:42

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Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work! Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/3. This episode covers four major philosophical topics related to artificial intelligence. The purpose is to give broader context to why AI matters, before moving into technical details in later episodes. 1. Economic Automation AI is automating not just simple…

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MLG 002 What is AI, ML, DS 1:05:22

8y ago1:05:22

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Links: Notes and resources at ocdevel.com/mlg/2 Try a walking desk stay healthy & sharp while you learn & code Try Descript audio/video editing with AI power-tools What is artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science? What are their differences? AI history. Hierarchical breakdown: DS(AI(ML)). Data science: any profession dealing with…

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