Exploring the Brave New Frontier of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
24 Jul, 2017
Over the last decade, the term “big data” grew to prominence. The rush was on to create technologies to capture and store vast quantities of data. The focus of many enterprises, both large and small, was on data capture and storage. Now, the rush is on to monetize and exploit...
We’ve been hearing the term “lambda” a lot more in software development in the last few years: lambda functions in LINQ and AWS Lamdas. Computerphile has an explanation of Lambda Calculus and its impact on computer science.
AWS / Azure / Data Science / Machine Learning
26 Jun, 2017
Here are the slides to the presentation I delivered at the recent Data Intelligence event in Tysons Corner.
14 Jun, 2017
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks about the enormous potential of artificial intelligence to change everything from shopping to self-driving cars. He also discusses his purchase of the Washington Post in 2013, which he says is transforming from a local to a global institution.
5 Jun, 2017
Data Science Dojo has a great introductory video on AWS Machine Learning.
15 May, 2017
Microsoft is far from the only company that is innovating around the conversational user interface. Earlier this year, AWS accounced Amazon Lex. Check out this webcast on it.
Artificial Intelligence / AWS / Machine Learning
13 May, 2017
Let’s discuss whether you should train your models locally or in the cloud. I’ll go through several dedicated GPU options, then compare three cloud options; AWS, Google Cloud, and FloydHub.
Amazon Web Services hosts Suresh Ramaswamy, Senior Director of Engineering at Qubole and he shows how they built a big data self-service platform on AWS, designed for heterogeneous, distributed processing of petabytes of data.
10 May, 2017
In this video Uber Engineering showcases some of their AWS engineering skills in this Serverless Meetup. Speakers include Uber’s Staff Engineer, Shawn Burke, and AWS’ Principal Product Engineer, Ajay Nair.
Here’s a great backgrounder on AWS Lambda and a tutorial on how to use it with Node.JS.
