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Friday, September 27, 2024

9/27/24: Guest presentation by Areesa Ashfaq: Visual Question Answering Based on Object Detection and Recognition

Machine Learning Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be removed from the invite list as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes (131^st meeting, Sept. 27, 2024)

Today

Guest presentation: Areesa Ashfaq, MS in Artificial Intelligence (Air University, Islamabad), will discuss her thesis work on “Visual Question Answering Based on Object Detection and Recognition.”

Announcements, updates, questions, etc.

Next week: AB will give a informal dry run of his proposal.
YP may be willing to provide an informal talk on AI ethics, company products and activities, and other topics.

Here are the latest readings and viewings

We can work on chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Friday, September 20, 2024

9/20/24: Discussion with guest

Machine Learning Study Group

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

130th meeting, Sept. 20, 2024

Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Colloquium earlier today: per an email, "If you missed today's talk from Yogesh Pandit, CEO of Hexanika on the state of AI Resistance, check out the recording at https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/playback/load/b66c69c702aa4f16aff231f8f76c8860"

Today was an informal discussion with Mr. Pandit.

Hexanika website: https://hexanika.com
Would be willing to provide an informal talk on AI ethics, their products and activities, and other topics.

The meeting concluded here

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We can work on chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Friday, September 13, 2024

9/13/24: Finish chapter 3 video and then chapter 4 video

Machine Learning Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:40 p.m. Central Time. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be removed from the invite list as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many.

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

129th meeting, Sept. 13, 2024

Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We finished chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U.
Then we finished chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8
Next time we can work on chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Friday, September 6, 2024

9/6/24: Informal guest presentation (JB)

Machine Learning Study Group

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

128th meeting, Sept. 6, 2024

Informal presentation by JB on "AI-Driven Motivational Interviewing: A Scalable Digital Health Coaching Model for Personalized Behavioral Change and Health Improvement"
Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We have started chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U getting up to 9:32.
Then we can do chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8
Then we can do chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

8/30/24: Finish chapter 2 video, start chapter 3

Machine Learning Study Group

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

127th meeting, Aug. 30, 2024

Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Next week: Informal guest presentation/discussion: JB on "AI-Driven Motivational Interviewing: A Scalable Digital Health Coaching Model for Personalized Behavioral Change and Health Improvement"

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We finished chapter 2 today.
We started chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U getting up to 9:32.
Then we can do chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8
Then we can do chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Friday, August 23, 2024

8/23/24: Start chapter two animated video

Machine Learning Study Group

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

126th meeting, Aug. 23, 2024

Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We started chapter 2 of the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZwWFHWa-w) this week. We got up to time 16:30, and can start from there next time.
Then we can do chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5
Then we can do chapter 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8
Then we can do chapter 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.

Friday, August 16, 2024

8/16/24: View the chapter one video from Grant Sanderson

Machine Learning Study Group

Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda & Minutes

125th meeting, Aug. 16, 2024

Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?

Here are the latest readings and viewings.

We'll continue with chapter 2 of the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&index=1&pp=iAQB) next week.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Andrej Karpathy, https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos for learning more.
Chapter 6 recommends material by Chris Olah, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+olah
Chapter 6 recommended https://www.youtube.com/c/VCubingX for relevant material, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1il-s4mgNdI
Chapter 6 recommended Art of the Problem, in particular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract. We could start it any time. We could even spend some time on this and some time on something else in the same meeting.