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Monday, January 16, 2023

OpenAI’s ChatGPT - Generative AI for Such a Time As This

Colleagues, according to CNET’s article (December 2023) “There's a new AI bot in town: ChatGPT, and even if you're not into artificial intelligence, you'd better pay attention.” Moreover, “It's a big deal. The tool seems pretty knowledgeable in areas where there's good training data for it to learn from. It's not omniscient or smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative. A few days after its launch, more than a million people were trying out ChatGPT.” ChatGPT can write blog posts, articles and even create computer programs. This chatbot is still in its infancy. However, as ChatGPT scans more Internet content and expands its knowledge base, the applications for consumers and professionals alike appear almost limitless.

With Generative AI’s astounding potential it is time for software developers and engineers to get training and certified. Here are our top 4 training program recommendations for 2023. First is Contact Center AI: Conversational Design Fundamentals you will learn to design customer conversational solutions using Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). You will be introduced to CCAI and its three pillars (Dialogflow, Agent Assist, and Insights), and the concepts behind conversational experiences and how the study of them influences the design of your virtual agent. After taking this course you will be prepared to take your virtual agent design to the next level of intelligent conversation. This is a beginner course, intended for learners with the following types of roles: Conversational designers: Designs the user experience of a virtual assistant. Translates the brand's business requirements into natural dialog flows. Citizen developers: Creates new business applications for consumption by others using high level development and runtime environments. Software developers: Codes computer software in a programming language (e.g., C++, Python, Javascript) and often using an SDK/API. Operations specialists: Monitors system operations and troubleshoots problems. Installs, supports, and maintains network and system tools. Second is Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Understand the intuition behind the fundamental components of GANs - Explore and implement multiple GAN architectures - Build conditional GANs capable of generating examples from determined categories Build a comprehensive knowledge base and gain hands-on experience in GANs. Train your own model using PyTorch, use it to create images, and evaluate a variety of advanced GANs. This Specialization provides an accessible pathway for all levels of learners looking to break into the GANs space or apply GANs to their own projects, even without prior familiarity with advanced math and machine learning research. Next is Machine Vision, GANs, and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Modern machine vision involves automated systems outperforming humans on image recognition, object detection, and image segmentation tasks. Generative Adversarial Networks cast two Deep Learning networks against each other in a “forger-detective” relationship, enabling the fabrication of stunning, photorealistic images with flexible, user-specifiable elements. Deep Reinforcement Learning has produced equally surprising advances, including the bulk of the most widely-publicized “artificial intelligence” breakthroughs. Deep RL involves training an “agent” to become adept in given “environments,” enabling algorithms to meet or surpass human-level performance on a diverse range of complex challenges, including Atari video games, the board game Go, and subtle hand-manipulation tasks. Throughout these lessons, essential theory is brought to life with intuitive explanations and interactive, hands-on Jupyter notebook demos. Examples feature Python and straightforward Keras layers in TensorFlow 2, the most popular Deep Learning library. And fourth, Apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Explore the applications of GANs and examine them wrt data augmentation, privacy, and anonymity - Leverage the image-to-image translation framework and identify applications to modalities beyond images - Implement Pix2Pix, a paired image-to-image translation GAN, to adapt satellite images into map routes (and vice versa) - Compare paired image-to-image translation to unpaired image-to-image translation and identify how their key difference necessitates different GAN architectures - Implement CycleGAN, an unpaired image-to-image translation model, to adapt horses to zebras (and vice versa) with two GANs in one The DeepLearning.AI Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization provides an exciting introduction to image generation with GANs, charting a path from foundational concepts to advanced techniques through an easy-to-understand approach. It also covers social implications, including bias in ML and the ways to detect it, privacy preservation, and more. Build a comprehensive knowledge base and gain hands-on experience in GANs. Train your own model using PyTorch, use it to create images, and evaluate a variety of advanced GANs. This Specialization provides an accessible pathway for all levels of learners looking to break into the GANs space or apply GANs to their own projects, even without prior familiarity with advanced math and machine learning research.


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Monday, January 9, 2023

Machine Learning in Trading and Finance

Colleagues, the Machine Learning in Trading and Finance program from the New York Institute of Finance and Google Cloud will equip you in Quantitative trading, pairs trading, and momentum trading. You will be able to design basic quantitative trading strategies, build machine learning models using Keras and TensorFlow, build a pair trading strategy prediction model and back test it, and build a momentum-based trading model and back test it. You should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for machine learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas.By the end of the Specialization, you'll understand how to use the capabilities of Google Cloud to develop and deploy serverless, scalable, deep learning, and reinforcement learning models to create trading strategies that can update and train themselves. As a challenge, you're invited to apply the concepts of Reinforcement Learning to use cases in Trading.  This program is intended for those who have an understanding of the foundations of Machine Learning at an intermediate level. To successfully complete the exercises within the program, you should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for Machine Learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas; a solid background in ML and statistics (including regression, classification, and basic statistical concepts) and basic knowledge of financial markets (equities, bonds, derivatives, market structure, and hedging). Experience with SQL is recommended.

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Monday, January 2, 2023

Top 3 Machine Learning Training Programs for 2023

Colleagues, GlassDoor estimate the average US salary for Machine Learning Engineers at $130,794. Keep your ML skillset up-to-date and earn top dollar for your high demand skills. Here are our top 3 training recommendations for a competitive advantage in 2023. First, is the Machine Learning Engineer program from Udacity. Learn the data science and machine learning skills required to build and deploy machine learning models in production using Amazon SageMaker. The program offers an Introduction to Machine Learning, Developing Your First ML Workflow, Deep Learning Topics within Computer Vision and NLP, Operationalizing Machine Learning Projects on SageMaker and Capstone Project: Inventory Monitoring at Distribution Centers. Second is IBM’s Advanced Machine Learning and Signal Processing training. Access to valuable insights into Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Models used by experts in many field relevant disciplines. We’ll learn about the fundamentals of Linear Algebra to understand how machine learning modes work. Then we introduce the most popular Machine Learning Frameworks for python: Scikit-Learn and SparkML. And third is the Machine Learning Engineering Career Track Program from Springboard. Deploy ML Algorithms and build your own portfolio. More than 50% of the Springboard curriculum is focused on production engineering skills. In this course, you'll design a machine learning/deep learning system, build a prototype and deploy a running application that can be accessed via API or web service.  

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2023: Top 3 R Programming Courses for Career Growth

Colleagues, ZipRecruiter estimates the average US salary for an R Developer is $123,850. Here are our top 3 training programs for developers seeking career and income growth. First up is R Programming. Learn how to program in R and how to use R for effective data analysis. You will learn how to install and configure software necessary for a statistical programming environment and describe generic programming language concepts as they are implemented in a high-level statistical language. The course covers practical issues in statistical computing which includes programming in R, reading data into R, accessing R packages, writing R functions, debugging, profiling R code, and organizing and commenting R code. Next is Programming for Data Science in R. Master the  fundamentals required for a career in data science. By the end of the program, you will be able to use R, SQL, Command Line, and Git. Training modules with hands-on labs include: 1) IIntroduction to SQL - learn SQL fundamentals such as JOINs, Aggregations, and Subqueries. Learn how to use SQL to answer complex business problems (Project: Investigate a Database), 2) Introduction to R Programming - learn R programming fundamentals such as data structures, variables, loops, and functions. Learn to visualize data in the popular data visualization library ggplot2 (Project: Explore US Bikeshare Data), and 3) Introduction to Version Control - use version control and share your work with other people in the data science industry (Project: Post your work on Github). And third, Advanced R Programming. Gain skills in functional programming in R, robust error handling, object oriented programming, profiling and benchmarking, debugging, and proper design of functions. Upon completing this course you will be able to identify and abstract common data analysis tasks and to encapsulate them in user-facing functions. 

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Christmas Bonanza - Audible & Kindle Book Series (Amazon)

“Transformative Innovation” Audio and eBook series make a wonderful Christmas gift! Transformative Innovation series:   1 - ChatGPT, Gemini...