I recently did a TED Ed talk on machine learning where I interviewed some of the top innovators in the field Including some of the creators of AlphaGo by Google's DeepMind and Members Of IBM's Watson team. I had a blast doing this talk and hope you enjoy listening to it also!
"You Can Do It" by Louis Monier (Altavista Co-Founder & CTO) & Gregory Renard (CTO & Artificial Intelligence Lead Architect at Xbrain) for Deep Learning keynote #0 at Holberton School (http://www.meetup.com/Holberton-School/events/228364522/)
If you want to assist to similar keynote for free, checkout http://www.meetup.com/Holberton-School/
"Understanding Humans with Machines" (Arthur Tisi)Maryam Farooq
At NYAI #16, Arthur Tisi explores deep neural networks that dominate advanced approaches to pattern recognition. Today neural networks transcribe our speech, recognize our pets, understand linguistics and fight our trolls. Recent advances by Geoff Hinton and the introduction of capsule networks only ups the ante. But despite the results, we have to wonder… why do they work so well?
In this session, Arthur Tisi, CEO and Founder of MeaningBot, will share some extremely remarkable results in applying deep neural networks to natural language processing (NLP), particularly in the areas of determining human traits in the areas of leadership, team building, personality, consumption preferences and more. Arthur will cite real world examples and share some of the math and science behind these advances including different variants of artificial neural networks, such as deep multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), recursive neural network (RNN), recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), sequence-to-sequence model, and shallow neural networks including word2vec for word embeddings.
Psychlab is a simulated psychology laboratory inside the first-person 3D
game world of DeepMind Lab (Beattie et al., 2016). Psychlab enables im-
plementations of classical laboratory psychological experiments so that they
work with both human and artificial agents. Psychlab has a simple and flex-
ible API that enables users to easily create their own tasks. As examples,
we are releasing Psychlab implementations of several classical experimen-
tal paradigms including visual search, change detection, random dot motion
discrimination, and multiple object tracking. We also contribute a study
of the visual psychophysics of a specific state-of-the-art deep reinforcement
learning agent: UNREAL (Jaderberg et al., 2016). This study leads to the
surprising conclusion that UNREAL learns more quickly about larger target
stimuli than it does about smaller stimuli. In turn, this insight motivates
a specific improvement in the form of a simple model of foveal vision that
turns out to significantly boost UNREAL’s performance, both on Psychlab
tasks, and on standard DeepMind Lab tasks. By open-sourcing Psychlab we
hope to facilitate a range of future such studies that simultaneously advance
deep reinforcement learning and improve its links with cognitive science.
I recently did a TED Ed talk on machine learning where I interviewed some of the top innovators in the field Including some of the creators of AlphaGo by Google's DeepMind and Members Of IBM's Watson team. I had a blast doing this talk and hope you enjoy listening to it also!
"You Can Do It" by Louis Monier (Altavista Co-Founder & CTO) & Gregory Renard (CTO & Artificial Intelligence Lead Architect at Xbrain) for Deep Learning keynote #0 at Holberton School (http://www.meetup.com/Holberton-School/events/228364522/)
If you want to assist to similar keynote for free, checkout http://www.meetup.com/Holberton-School/
"Understanding Humans with Machines" (Arthur Tisi)Maryam Farooq
At NYAI #16, Arthur Tisi explores deep neural networks that dominate advanced approaches to pattern recognition. Today neural networks transcribe our speech, recognize our pets, understand linguistics and fight our trolls. Recent advances by Geoff Hinton and the introduction of capsule networks only ups the ante. But despite the results, we have to wonder… why do they work so well?
In this session, Arthur Tisi, CEO and Founder of MeaningBot, will share some extremely remarkable results in applying deep neural networks to natural language processing (NLP), particularly in the areas of determining human traits in the areas of leadership, team building, personality, consumption preferences and more. Arthur will cite real world examples and share some of the math and science behind these advances including different variants of artificial neural networks, such as deep multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), recursive neural network (RNN), recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM), sequence-to-sequence model, and shallow neural networks including word2vec for word embeddings.
Psychlab is a simulated psychology laboratory inside the first-person 3D
game world of DeepMind Lab (Beattie et al., 2016). Psychlab enables im-
plementations of classical laboratory psychological experiments so that they
work with both human and artificial agents. Psychlab has a simple and flex-
ible API that enables users to easily create their own tasks. As examples,
we are releasing Psychlab implementations of several classical experimen-
tal paradigms including visual search, change detection, random dot motion
discrimination, and multiple object tracking. We also contribute a study
of the visual psychophysics of a specific state-of-the-art deep reinforcement
learning agent: UNREAL (Jaderberg et al., 2016). This study leads to the
surprising conclusion that UNREAL learns more quickly about larger target
stimuli than it does about smaller stimuli. In turn, this insight motivates
a specific improvement in the form of a simple model of foveal vision that
turns out to significantly boost UNREAL’s performance, both on Psychlab
tasks, and on standard DeepMind Lab tasks. By open-sourcing Psychlab we
hope to facilitate a range of future such studies that simultaneously advance
deep reinforcement learning and improve its links with cognitive science.
The Incredible Disappearing Data ScientistRebecca Bilbro
The last decade saw advances in compute power combine with an avalanche of open source software development, resulting in a revolution in machine learning and scalable analytics. “Data science” and “data product” are now household terms. This led to a new job description, the Data Scientist, which quickly became one of the most significant, exciting, and misunderstood jobs of the 21st century. One part statistician, one part computer scientist, and one part domain expert, data scientists seem poised to become the most pivotal value creators of the information age. And yet, danger (supposedly) lies ahead: human decisions are increasingly outsourced to algorithms of questionable ethical design; we’re putting everything on the blockchain; and perhaps most disturbingly, data science salaries are dropping precipitously as new graduates and Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) offerings flood the market. As we move into a future where predictive analytics is no longer a differentiator but instead a core business function, will data scientists proliferate or be automated out of a job?
In this talk, one humble data scientist attempts to cut through the hype to present an alternate vision of what data science is and can become. If not the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" as the Harvard Business Review once quipped, what is it like to be a workaday data scientist? What problems are we solving? How do we integrate with mature engineering teams? How do we engage with clients and product owners? How do we deploy non-deterministic models in production? In particular, we’ll examine critical integration points — technological and otherwise — we are currently tackling, which will ultimately determine our success, and our viability, over the next 10 years.
Sippin: A Mobile Application Case Study presented at Techfest LouisvilleDawn Yankeelov
"Sippin: A Mobile Application Case Study," was presented at Techfest Louisville 2017 hosted by the Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky on Aug. 16th-17th.
In this deck from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Steve Conway from Hyperion Research presents: The Need for Deep Learning Transparency.
"We humans don’t fully understand how humans think. When it comes to deep learning, humans also don’t understand yet how computers think. That’s a big problem when we’re entrusting our lives to self-driving vehicles or to computers that diagnose serious diseases, or to computers installed to protect national security. We need to find a way to make these “black box” computers transparent."
"We help IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. Our industry experts are the former IDC high performance computing (HPC) analyst team, which remains intact and continues all of its global activities. The group is comprised of the world’s most respected HPC industry analysts who have worked together for more than 25 years."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-it7
Learn more: http://hyperionresearch.com/
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
AI - Artificial Intelligence - Implications for LibrariesBrian Pichman
What does the world of AI (artificial intelligence) mean for libraries? Can AI replace library services or how can libraries leverage the technology for more streamlined services. From Smart Houses, to Robots, to technology yet to be mainstreamed, this session will cover it all to help you better prepare and plan for the future.
Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel in 1959, gives "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.Evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence,machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data – such algorithms overcome following strictly static program instructions by making data-driven predictions or decisions,:2 through building a model from sample inputs. Machine learning is employed in a range of computing tasks where designing and programming explicit algorithms with good performance is difficult or unfeasible; example applications include email filtering, detection of network intruders or malicious insiders working towards a data breach,Optical character recognition (OCR),learning to rank and computer vision.
Brains@Bay Meetup: The Effect of Sensorimotor Learning on the Learned Represe...Numenta
Most current deep neural networks learn from a static data set without active interaction with the world. We take a look at how learning through a closed loop between action and perception affects the representations learned in a DNN. We demonstrate how these representations are significantly different from DNNs that learn supervised or unsupervised from a static dataset without interaction. These representations are much sparser and encode meaningful content in an efficient way. Even an agent who learned without any external supervision, purely through curious interaction with the world, acquires encodings of the high dimensional visual input that enable the agent to recognize objects using only a handful of labeled examples. Our results highlight the capabilities that emerge from letting DNNs learn more similar to biological brains, though sensorimotor interaction with the world.
For more:
Get hands-on with Explainable AI at Machine Learning Interpretability(MLI) Gym!Sri Ambati
This meetup took place in Mountain View on January 24th, 2019.
Description:
With the effort and contributions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, Machine Learning Interpretation has become a young sub-field of ML. However, the norms around its definition and understanding is still in its infancy and there are numerous different approaches emerging rapidly. However, there seems to be a lack of a consistent explanation framework to evaluate and consistently benchmark different algorithms - evaluating against interpretation, completeness and consistency of the algorithms.
The idea with the gym is to provide a controlled interactive environment for all forms of Machine Learning algorithms, - initially focusing on supervised predictive modeling problems, to allow analysts and data-scientists to explore, debug and generate insightful understanding of the models by
1.Model Validation: Ways to explore and validate black box ML systems enabling model comparison both globally and locally - identifying biases in the training data through interpretation.
2.What-if Analysis: An interactive environment where communication can happen i.e. enable learning through interactions. User having the ability to conduct "What-If" analysis - effect of single or multiple features and their interactions
3.Model Debugging: Ways to analyze the misbehavior of the model by exploring counterfactual examples(adversarial examples and training)
4. Interpretable Models: Ability to build natively interpretable models - with the goal to simplify complex models to enable better understanding.
The central concept with MLI gym is to have an interactive environment where one could explore and simulate variations in the world(a world post a model is operationalized) beyond the defined model metrics point estimates - e.g. ROC-AUC, confusion matrix, RMSE, R2 score and others.
Speaker's Bio:
Pramit is a Lead Data Scientist/ at H2O.ai. His area of interests is building Statistical/Machine Learning models(Bayesian and Frequentist Modeling techniques) to help the business realize their data-driven goals.
Currently, he is exploring "Model Interpretation" as means to efficiently understand the true nature of predictive models to enable model robustness and security. He believes effective Model Inference coupled with Adversarial training could lead to building trustworthy models with known blind spots. He has started an open source project Skater: https://github.com/datascienceinc/Skater to solve the need for Model Inference(The project is still in its early stages of development but check it out, always eager for feedback)
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Incredible Disappearing Data ScientistRebecca Bilbro
The last decade saw advances in compute power combine with an avalanche of open source software development, resulting in a revolution in machine learning and scalable analytics. “Data science” and “data product” are now household terms. This led to a new job description, the Data Scientist, which quickly became one of the most significant, exciting, and misunderstood jobs of the 21st century. One part statistician, one part computer scientist, and one part domain expert, data scientists seem poised to become the most pivotal value creators of the information age. And yet, danger (supposedly) lies ahead: human decisions are increasingly outsourced to algorithms of questionable ethical design; we’re putting everything on the blockchain; and perhaps most disturbingly, data science salaries are dropping precipitously as new graduates and Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) offerings flood the market. As we move into a future where predictive analytics is no longer a differentiator but instead a core business function, will data scientists proliferate or be automated out of a job?
In this talk, one humble data scientist attempts to cut through the hype to present an alternate vision of what data science is and can become. If not the “Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" as the Harvard Business Review once quipped, what is it like to be a workaday data scientist? What problems are we solving? How do we integrate with mature engineering teams? How do we engage with clients and product owners? How do we deploy non-deterministic models in production? In particular, we’ll examine critical integration points — technological and otherwise — we are currently tackling, which will ultimately determine our success, and our viability, over the next 10 years.
Sippin: A Mobile Application Case Study presented at Techfest LouisvilleDawn Yankeelov
"Sippin: A Mobile Application Case Study," was presented at Techfest Louisville 2017 hosted by the Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky on Aug. 16th-17th.
In this deck from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Steve Conway from Hyperion Research presents: The Need for Deep Learning Transparency.
"We humans don’t fully understand how humans think. When it comes to deep learning, humans also don’t understand yet how computers think. That’s a big problem when we’re entrusting our lives to self-driving vehicles or to computers that diagnose serious diseases, or to computers installed to protect national security. We need to find a way to make these “black box” computers transparent."
"We help IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. Our industry experts are the former IDC high performance computing (HPC) analyst team, which remains intact and continues all of its global activities. The group is comprised of the world’s most respected HPC industry analysts who have worked together for more than 25 years."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-it7
Learn more: http://hyperionresearch.com/
and
http://hpcuserforum.com
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
AI - Artificial Intelligence - Implications for LibrariesBrian Pichman
What does the world of AI (artificial intelligence) mean for libraries? Can AI replace library services or how can libraries leverage the technology for more streamlined services. From Smart Houses, to Robots, to technology yet to be mainstreamed, this session will cover it all to help you better prepare and plan for the future.
Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel in 1959, gives "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.Evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence,machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data – such algorithms overcome following strictly static program instructions by making data-driven predictions or decisions,:2 through building a model from sample inputs. Machine learning is employed in a range of computing tasks where designing and programming explicit algorithms with good performance is difficult or unfeasible; example applications include email filtering, detection of network intruders or malicious insiders working towards a data breach,Optical character recognition (OCR),learning to rank and computer vision.
Brains@Bay Meetup: The Effect of Sensorimotor Learning on the Learned Represe...Numenta
Most current deep neural networks learn from a static data set without active interaction with the world. We take a look at how learning through a closed loop between action and perception affects the representations learned in a DNN. We demonstrate how these representations are significantly different from DNNs that learn supervised or unsupervised from a static dataset without interaction. These representations are much sparser and encode meaningful content in an efficient way. Even an agent who learned without any external supervision, purely through curious interaction with the world, acquires encodings of the high dimensional visual input that enable the agent to recognize objects using only a handful of labeled examples. Our results highlight the capabilities that emerge from letting DNNs learn more similar to biological brains, though sensorimotor interaction with the world.
For more:
Get hands-on with Explainable AI at Machine Learning Interpretability(MLI) Gym!Sri Ambati
This meetup took place in Mountain View on January 24th, 2019.
Description:
With the effort and contributions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, Machine Learning Interpretation has become a young sub-field of ML. However, the norms around its definition and understanding is still in its infancy and there are numerous different approaches emerging rapidly. However, there seems to be a lack of a consistent explanation framework to evaluate and consistently benchmark different algorithms - evaluating against interpretation, completeness and consistency of the algorithms.
The idea with the gym is to provide a controlled interactive environment for all forms of Machine Learning algorithms, - initially focusing on supervised predictive modeling problems, to allow analysts and data-scientists to explore, debug and generate insightful understanding of the models by
1.Model Validation: Ways to explore and validate black box ML systems enabling model comparison both globally and locally - identifying biases in the training data through interpretation.
2.What-if Analysis: An interactive environment where communication can happen i.e. enable learning through interactions. User having the ability to conduct "What-If" analysis - effect of single or multiple features and their interactions
3.Model Debugging: Ways to analyze the misbehavior of the model by exploring counterfactual examples(adversarial examples and training)
4. Interpretable Models: Ability to build natively interpretable models - with the goal to simplify complex models to enable better understanding.
The central concept with MLI gym is to have an interactive environment where one could explore and simulate variations in the world(a world post a model is operationalized) beyond the defined model metrics point estimates - e.g. ROC-AUC, confusion matrix, RMSE, R2 score and others.
Speaker's Bio:
Pramit is a Lead Data Scientist/ at H2O.ai. His area of interests is building Statistical/Machine Learning models(Bayesian and Frequentist Modeling techniques) to help the business realize their data-driven goals.
Currently, he is exploring "Model Interpretation" as means to efficiently understand the true nature of predictive models to enable model robustness and security. He believes effective Model Inference coupled with Adversarial training could lead to building trustworthy models with known blind spots. He has started an open source project Skater: https://github.com/datascienceinc/Skater to solve the need for Model Inference(The project is still in its early stages of development but check it out, always eager for feedback)
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
2. Summary
● What went wrong with traditional AI?
● Probabilistic machines - a new paradigm
● Why Deep Learning is different and why it matters
● Applications
○ NLP
○ Image
○ Drug discovery
○ Weather forecasting
● Large generative models
○ GTP3
○ LAMP
○ GLAMP
● Is this intelligence?
3. Rule based programs
Solve numerical equations
Accurate
Fast
Pure logic
Why “old” AI failed?
Can’t deal with unstructured data
Get stuck with exceptions to rules
Not scalable
All actions have to be programmed
Rigid, can’t learn
4. The vodka was good but the
meat was rotten
Blind and insane
English - Russian - English
“The spirit was willing but the flesh
was weak“
“Out of sight out of mind”
6. Symbolic thinking may be the
supreme form of human intelligence
but there are other ways to build
“smart” machines
7. The associative paradigm
Learning by associations
No true or false but probabilities
No symbols but distributions
Pattern matching
Trained by examples not hard coded
No CPU or memory, just signals flowing through a mesh of connections
19. stateof.ai 2021
Deep learning models can learn drug-protein binding relationships from a small number of empirical experiments
in order to help prioritise which areas of vast chemical spaces to virtually screen.
Accelerating high-throughput virtual drug screening with model-guided search
● Structure-based drug discovery searches for drugs that bind a protein
of interest whose 3D structure is available. This process, referred to
as “docking”, can be run virtually using simulations. However, with
databases of small molecule chemicals exploding past billions of
records, virtually screening all combinations becomes
computationally and commercially intractable.
● A solution is to train a model on a sample of drug-protein
interactions with empirically determined docking scores.
● This model can be used to virtually score a library of interest,
followed by docking the top scoring drug candidates. These results
are used to update the model with active learning. With several
iterations, model-guided search ultimately generates hits faster.
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22. stateof.ai 2021
DreamerV2 is the first model-based RL agent trained on a single GPU to surpass human level performance on 55
popular tasks of the Atari benchmark.The agent learns behaviors purely within the latent space of a world model
trained from pixels, which makes these behaviors more generalisable to solving future tasks more efficiently.
Superhuman world models for Atari, but on a budget
● DreamerV2 vastly outperforms other RL agents trained with the same computational budget, across all
performance aggregation metrics.
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23. stateof.ai 2021
RL agents have shown impressive performance on challenging individual tasks. But can they generalize to tasks
they never trained on? DeepMind trained RL agents on 3.4M tasks across a diverse set of 700k games in a 3D
simulated environment, and show they can generalize to radically different games without additional training.
Zero-shot generalisation in reinforcement learning
● The researchers created XLand, a vast controllable environment, which
allows them to dynamically adapt both how the agents train and,
crucially, the games on which they train.
● The distribution of games is learned using a hyperparameter optimization
technique called Population Based Training. It allows them to find the
games which have the right level of difficulty given the agents’ behaviour.
This ensures the agents build evermore general capabilities.
● As training progresses, the agents exhibit heuristic behaviours such as
experimenting, changing the state of the world, and cooperation, which
are uncharacteristic of usual RL agents. These learned behaviours allow
them to generalize to hand-designed held-out tasks, a first in RL research.
Figure: Examples of XLand environments.
Figure: Test metrics progress during training.
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25. Some BIG generative models
GTP3
Language model
Next word prediction
DALLE 2
Image and text
Diffusion model
GLAMP / PALM
NLP and text
understanding
OpenAI OpenAI Google
27. Humans vs machines
Not everyone agrees. “Artificial intelligence
programs lack consciousness and
self-awareness,” researcher Gwern Branwen
wrote in his article about GPT-3. “They will
never be able to have a sense of humor. They
will never be able to appreciate art, or beauty,
or love. They will never feel lonely. They will
never have empathy for other people, for
animals, for the environment. They will never
enjoy music or fall in love, or cry at the drop
of a hat.”
40. Image processing
What has been solved
Identification of objects
Automatic subtitles generation
Image segmentation, Depth
NLP
Writing coherent text
Explainability
Generative models
High quality synthetic data
Conditional text to image models
Reinforcement Learning
“Almost zero shot” learning
Learning by observing: replication
Object manipulation
Video
Object tracking and Identification
Pose estimation
Science
Drug discovery
Weather forecasting
Physics Informed Networks
41. IMAGE
What’s still a challenge
Zero shot learning
Video
Self driving cars
Generative models
Spatio-Temporal data
Reinforcement learning
Self exploration without goals
NLP
Keep coherence on long texts
Understanding meaning
Science
Discover new laws
Deductive thinking
43. Beyond the present paradigma
BEYOND GRADIENT DESCENDENT
● Gradient based algorithms are continuous but nature is discrete
● Learning can gradual but also through sharp transitions - paradigms
● Recursivity hard to model with GD
FROM BLACK-BLOXES TO CONJECTURE MACHINES
● ANN are induction machines, but knownledge can also be deductive
● At the moment we are brute-forcing learning with big models and data
● Hard tp generalize with a single example