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

[Artur Dubrawski]

BTW, on the menu for today:

Randomization testing of significance, bootstrapping, ROC and McNemar's
tests.

Enjoy!

Artur

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:18 AM Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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