3/10/23: Workshop on Jupyter Notebooks and Google Collab, parts 3 and 4

  Machine Learning Study Group

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 55th meeting, Mar. 10, 2023.
• Updates/news/inputs/comments
• We start at 4:00 (or as soon as the weekly seminar is over and people have logged in). Zoom automatically ends the meeting after 40 minutes. 
• New members welcome. Anyone can join. You are welcome to attend any or all sessions. Also feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as I have no wish to send unneeded emails which we all certainly get too much of.
• Today: Parts 4 and 4 of the workshop on Jupyter Notebooks and Google Collab! See program below.

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Presenter: VW

Venue: Zoom. Be on a computer (not phone) because it is hands-on.

Here are a few more details from VW:

This talk will be in four parts [across two successive Fridays]:

Part 1: basic mechanics of using Python Jupyter Notebooks in Google Colab.

      keeping track of resource usage

      keyboard shortcuts for code and text cells

      GPU provisioning: processor and RAM selection

      imports

      LaTex mathematics inclusion

      Tables

      images

Part 2: Basic Python Syntax

      variables

      data types

      containers, lists, dictionaries, sets, tuples, and functions

      modules

Part 3: Numpy Linear Algebra Library

      Pandas Procedural Spreadsheets

      Matplotlib, Subplots, Scatter plots, Histograms

Part 4: Gan in Sixty Seconds:

      A 60 line Python GAN that uses transfer learning and mimics ChatGPT.

Each session will be Friday at 4 pm and will last 30 minutes.

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Business for future meetings:

• VK may continue informally stepping us through the article, "ChatGPT Strategy" by C. Goodall. We got up to the phrase "As AI powered systems are increasingly ...".
  
• Here are some other things we have been reading or might like to read.
  
• ChatGPT related readings, video viewings, etc.
  

• ChatGPT: What Is It & How Can You Use It? (searchenginejournal.com). We already read and discussed up to "The moderators at the coding Q&A website Stack Overflow ..." on 1/6/23.
• ChatGPT Is a Game-Changer. Here’s How to Use it in Your Writing. We already discussed more or less up to "2. Headline generation" on 12/30/22.
  
• ChatGPT Caused 'Code Red' at Google, Report Says - CNET. We already discussed up to "ChatGPT is an AI chatbot" on 12/30/22. 
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | by Mark Schaefer | Dec, 2022 | Medium  
• Large Language Models: A New Moore's Law? (huggingface.co)
• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT - The New York Times
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating
• Short video: ChatGPT in medicine

• At some point we can discuss and vote on other sources. See the list on the page of sources. Also Youtube is full of videos about neural nets, transformers, etc.
  

• Readings/videos/demos we have finished. 
• 2/17/23; "Deep Learning for AI" by Bengio, LeCun and Hinton, the Turing Award Lecture paper for 2018, published in CACM, 2021, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250.
  
• ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI (Harvard Business Review). Finished 1/27/23.
• 12/16/22: We demoed ChatGPT.
• 11/4/22: We viewed and discussed a transformers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQlZhbC5ps first. This seemed to be one of the better videos of the many out there.
• Transformers From Scratch," https://e2eml.school/transformers.html. Finished on 10/28/22.
• The Narrated Transformer Language Model, Jay Alammar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH8fRhqFHM, finished 7/22/22.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1X4fHzF4mQ. Finished 8/26/22.
  
• We also finished other things from before this list of finished sources was created to keep a record of them.