Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Microsoft Build 2017, the premier software developers event is in the books now. There has been a significant number of announcements and releases across the wide array of new software and services but I will cover the area of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, specifically around Microsoft Cognitive Services in this post. Democratization of Artificial…
Live stream for the Stanford AI event (2017 Plenary Session) scheduled from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm PST Agenda: 8:00AM - 8:30AM Registration & Breakfast 8:30AM - 9:00AM Welcome Presented by Department and Plenary Session Chairs Mendel Rosenblum,Stanford Alex Aiken,Stanford Abbas El Gamal,Stanford Fei-Fei Li, Stanford 9:00AM - 9:20AM Seeing is Understanding, Fei-Fei Li,Stanford 9:20AM…
Philly .NET Code Camp on February 24-25 at Microsoft MTC, Malvern, PA was a great success. Kudos to Bill Wolff and his team, and Mostafa Elzoghbi (Microsoft) for inviting me. Following is the abstract from my talk, and the slide-deck. The slides are composed using Microsoft Cognitive services artifacts. Abstract: The session covers how to use…
An excellent introduction to StackGAN: Text to Photo-realistic Image Synthesis with Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks via Image Synthesis From Text With Deep Learning | Two Minute Papers.
Microsoft Machine Learning and Data Science Summit promised to connect Big Data engineers, Data Scientists, Machine Learning practitioners and managers to share best practices, to Dive deep & learn, and to facilitate Think big & execute fast ideas. In my experience, the summit met majority of its goals and it was a great start. Microsoft has graciously made majority…
Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit is taking place in conjunction with Microsoft Ignite at Georgia World Congress Center. Today, day 1 started with keynote by Dr. Joseph Sirosh who identified three axes of innovation along with various customer case studies. Thought leaders and Microsoft engineers discuss the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence,…
Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit is taking place in conjunction with Microsoft Ignite at Georgia World Congress Center on September 26 – 27, 2016 in Atlanta where thought leaders and Microsoft engineers will discuss the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Source techniques and technologies. I am exited to attend the summit due…
Last week Microsoft has announced that Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight (Microsoft’s managed Hadoop and Spark cloud service) is now generally available. I spoke to Tampa Bay Data Science Group last night regarding Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight and the associated offerings. Spark for Azure HDInsight offers customers an enterprise-ready Spark solution that’s fully managed, secured, and highly available…
John Foreman in, Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight works towards a A Workable Definition of Data Science, which is definitely an excellent read. To an extent, data science is synonymous with or related to terms like business analytics, operations research, business intelligence, competitive intelligence, data analysis and modeling, and knowledge extraction (also called knowledge…
If I have to rate typical conversations with machine learning enthusiasts, following queries usually rank at the top: "How do I pick an algorithm for my dataset?" "How do I know which one is the right algorithm to choose for my problem?" "Does logistic regression makes my dataset looks big?" Well, maybe not that last…