REEMINDER: Second session of "Safe and Pleasant ML": Today 4:30-6pm

[Artur Dubrawski]

See you there

Cheers,
Artur

PS We had our weekly walk yesterday so there will be no organized walk today

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:40 AM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Team,
>
> Today we will have a "ML equalizer" session in which I will talk about
> some basic concepts of survival in the Machine Learning research and
> applications world. It will be primarily targeting our largest-than-ever
> cohort of summer interns, who come from various backgrounds to work with us
> at the Lab on various ML or ML-related projects.
>
> But everyone is welcome. In particular if you are a relatively new member
> of our team and in the process of immersing yourself into the ways of
> thinking about ML and AI, you could find attending this meeting quite
> useful.
>
> Topics I am thinking about covering today:
> * Basic ML tasks
> * Challenge of overfitting and how to mitigate the risk of it
> * Challenges caused by random data and how to mitigate them
> * Empirical evaluation of classifiers: ROC, McNemar's test
>
> Let me know if you think we should adjust that menu or if we should cover
> more topics.
> We may arrange more sessions like this over the summer, and I will be
> happy to share the floor with willing volunteer speakers as well.
>
> This will be a hybrid meeting in NSH 3305 and on zoom (Meeting ID:
> 94267966836 Passcode: 960534).
> I plan to join in person.
>
> We expect to be done by or before 6pm, right in time for the walk in the
> park.
>
> For those of us who would like to participate in the walk, please note
> that this time we will be meeting in front of Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm,
> instead of our usual starting spot.
>
> Cheers
> Artur
>
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