Communication is Key
Our Virtual Fortnightly Machine Learning Meeting Notes for February 10, 2022
Hey Outliers,
We tried something different last town hall to shake things up. One of our members mustered up the courage to organize a Kahoot with some basic data science questions and it was a success. The questions were basic but the challenging part was communicating the answers effectively. I personally had trouble explaining key concepts such as random forests even though I learned about it multiple times and implemented even more times.
Part of data science is communication. If we are working in a team, whether it be a job or a Kaggle competition, we have to explain our thoughts and reasoning behind why we chose one technique over the other. In our head it may make sense but communicating to our peers is a totally different story. If we cannot communicate our justification, then the work will not be valued.
UPDATES
KAGGLE
TPS Feb 2022: Predict the bacteria given DNA sequence
BOOK STUDY
Finished Practical Statistics for Data Science
Need to figure out a way to apply what we learned
Going to start Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
You probably can find a PDF version online
RESEARCH TOPIC
Transformers
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Introduces attention mechanisms
Introduces the transformer architecture
Vision Transformers
In Discord people are sharing a lot of great resources to improve your data science skills. We will be working on a wiki of some sorts to aggregate all these resources, so stay tuned! If you would like to help out with some admin work with Biased Outliers, let us know in the comments below. See you on February 24, 2022 at 8pm EST!
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