NLP with ChatGPT (and other LLMs)

Over 1400 people registered for yesterday's "NLP with ChatGPT (and other LLMs)" conference that I hosted in the O'Reilly Media platform. Kudos to speakers Sinan, Melanie and Shaan for making it a smashing success 🎉

This screenshot is a taste of what it looked like from inside the broadcasting platform, captained flawlessly by producers Joan Baker and Nurul Ishak, PMP.

The presenters each spent 30 minutes presenting on their topics and then engaged in riveting Q&A with the highly engaged attendees:
• Sinan Ozdemir: The A.I. entrepreneur and author introduced the theory behind Transformer Architectures and LLMs like BERT, T5, and GPT.
• Melanie Subbiah: A first author on the original GPT-3 paper, she led interactive demos of the broad range of capabilities of LLMs like ChatGPT.
• Shaan Khosla: A data scientist on my team at Nebula.io, he detailed practical tips on training, validating, and productionizing LLMs hands-on in Python.

I've heard word that, unusually for a live event in O'Reilly, the footage of this conference will be made available as a video within the platform. Stay tuned for details!

Getting Value From A.I.

My keynote on "Getting Value from A.I." — which I delivered at Hg Capital's "Digital Forum" in London — is now live on YouTube!

With a focus on B2B SaaS applications, over 45 minutes I covered:
1. What Deep Learning A.I. is and How it Works
2. Tasks that are Replaceable with A.I. vs Tasks that can be Augmented
3. How to Effectively Implement A.I. Research into Production

The audience engagement was terrific and the on-stage Q&A carried on afterward for an energizing 20 additional minutes. All of this is captured in the slickly-edited video production.

TEDx Talk: How Neuroscience Inspires A.I. Breakthroughs that will Change the World

My first TED-format talk is live! In it, I use (A.I.-generated!) visuals to color how A.I. will transform the world in our lifetimes, with particular emphases on climate change, food security, and healthcare innovations.

Thanks to Christina, Banu, and everyone at TEDxDrexelU for inviting me to speak, organizing a slick event, and masterfully editing the footage of my talk.

Thanks to Ed, Andrew, and Shaan at Nebula.io for providing invaluable feedback on drafts of my talk. It's only due to your constructive criticism that the final version turned out as well as it did. Thanks as well to Steven and Alex at Wynden Stark for kindly covering the travel costs of any employees that came down to Philadelphia to see the talk in-person.

Finally, thanks to Taya and Hannah at OpenAI for providing me with early access to custom images from their DALL-E 2 model. These were critical to me being able to tell the effectively convey the narrative I yearned to.

O'Reilly + JK October & November ML Foundations LIVE Classes open for registration

We're halfway through my live 14-class "ML Foundations" curriculum, which I'm offering via O'Reilly Media. The first Probability class is on Wednesday with five of the seven remaining classes open for registration now:

• Oct 6 — Intro to Probability
• Oct 13 — Probability II and Information Theory
• Oct 27 — Intro to Statistics
• Nov 3 — Statistics II: Regression and Bayesian
• Nov 17 — Intro to Data Structures and Algorithms

The final two classes will be in December and are on Computer Science topics: Hashing, Trees, Graphs, and Optimization. Registration for them should open soon.

All of the training dates and registration links are provided at jonkrohn.com/talks.

A detailed curriculum and all of the code for my ML Foundations series is available open-source in GitHub here.

O'Reilly + JK October ML Foundations LIVE Classes open for registration

The Linear Algebra classes of my "ML Foundations" curriculum, offered via the O'Reilly Media platform, are in the rear-view mirror. Two Calculus classes are coming up soon and the Probability classes just opened for registration:

• Sep 15 — Calculus III: Partial Derivatives
• Sep 22 — Calculus IV: Gradients and Integrals
• Oct 6 — Intro to Probability
• Oct 13 — Probability II and Information Theory
• Oct 27 — Intro to Statistics

Overall, four subject areas are covered:
• Linear Algebra (3/3 classes DONE)
• Calculus (2/4 classes DONE)
• Probability and Statistics (4 classes)
• Computer Science (3 classes)

Hope to see you in class! Sign up opens about two months prior to each class. All of the training dates and registration links are provided at jonkrohn.com/talks

A detailed curriculum and all of the code for my ML Foundations series is available open-source in GitHub here.

Tutorial on "Big O Notation"

Brand-new, hands-on intro to "Big O Notation" — an essential computer science concept. "Big O" allows us to weigh the compute-time vs memory-usage trade-offs of all algorithms, including machine learning models.

This YouTube video is a 45-minute, standalone excerpt from my six-hour "Data Structures, Algorithms, and ML Optimization" course, which focuses on code demos in Python to make understanding concepts intuitive, fun, and interactive.

If you have an O'Reilly Media subscription, the full course was recently published here.

If you'd like to purchase the course, Pearson is offering it this week (until August 28th) at a 70% discount as their "Video Deal of the Week". The URL for this unusually deep discount is here.

This "DSA and ML Optimization" course is the fourth and final quarter of my broader ML Foundations curriculum. All of the associated code is available open-source via GitHub.

Filming ""Data Structures, Algorithms, and Machine Learning Optimization"" LiveLessons

Silly times on set filming my "Data Structures, Algorithms, and Machine Learning Optimization" videos, which — over 6.5 interactive hours — introduce critical Computer Science concepts for ML and Data Science.

These videos were recently published in the O'Reilly Media platform.

These CS-focused videos are the fourth and final quarter of the subject areas covered in my broader "ML Foundations" curriculum — the first three being Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability. All of the code from the curriculum is available open-source in GitHub.

And my "Math for ML" playlist on O'Reilly captures all of the videos in this curriculum in one place.

Intro to Regression Models – O'Reilly Live Lessons

My new 80-minute intro to Regression Models is up on YouTube! It's packed with hands-on code demos in Python-based Jupyter notebooks to make learning regression intuitive, interactive, and maybe even fun :)

This lesson is an excerpt from my 9-hour "Probability and Statistics for Machine Learning" video tutorial, which is available via O'Reilly here.

All of the code is available open-source via GitHub.

Upcoming O'Reilly Calculus Classes

Starting a week today, I'm offering my entire "ML Foundations" curriculum as a series of 14 live, interactive workshops via O'Reilly Media. The first five classes are open for registration; two are already waitlist-only, so grab a spot now:

• Jul 14 — Intro to Linear Algebra (waitlisted)
• Jul 21 — LinAlg II: Matrix Tensors (5 spots remaining)
• Jul 28 — LinAlg III: Eigenvectors (waitlisted)
• Aug 12 — Intro to Calculus (143 spots remaining)
• Aug 18 — Calc II: AutoDiff (148 spots remaining)

REGARDING THE WAITLIST: I have a made a request with O'Reilly to increase the maximum class size from 600 students to 1000, so if you sign up for a waitlisted class now, you should still be able to get in.

Overall, there will be four subject areas covered:
• Linear Algebra (3 classes)
• Calculus (4 classes)
• Probability and Statistics (4 classes)
• Computer Science (3 classes)

Sign up opens about two months prior to each class. All 14 training dates, running from next week through December, are provided at jonkrohn.com/talks

A detailed curriculum and all of the code for my ML Foundations series is available open-source in GitHub here.