Author: nickcdryan

No, you don’t need a moat

A leaked Google memo is going around and it’s worth a read. The author (AI researcher inside of Google) thinks that Google has no strategic edge in the future of AI and needs to change direction. The analysis is good, but the conclusion is wrong.

In this post:

  • There are different kinds of moats – the public discussion is about a special case moat
  • Moats are neither necessary nor sufficient for a successful business. If that sounds irrational that’s because it is
  • Your toaster is just a live wire in a box
  • Google has a gigantic AI moat
  • In the end this is actually good news for Google, not bad news
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BERT Fine-Tuning Tutorial with PyTorch

Here’s another post I co-authored with Chris McCormick on how to quickly and easily create a SOTA text classifier by fine-tuning BERT in PyTorch. It’s incredibly useful to take a look at this transfer learning approach if you’re interested in creating a high performance NLP model.

BERT Word Embeddings Tutorial

Please check out the post I co-authored with Chris McCormick on BERT Word Embeddings here. In it, we take an in-depth look at the word embeddings produced by BERT, show you how to create your own in a Google Colab notebook, and tips on how to implement and use these embeddings in your production pipeline. Check it out!

Broyden’s Method in Python

In a previous post we looked at root-finding methods for single variable equations. In this post we’ll look at the expansion of Quasi-Newton methods to the multivariable case and look at one of the more widely-used algorithms today: Broyden’s Method.

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Root-Finding Algorithms Tutorial in Python: Line Search, Bisection, Secant, Newton-Raphson, Inverse Quadratic Interpolation, Brent’s Method

Motivation

How do you find the roots of a continuous polynomial function? Well, if we want to find the roots of something like:

f(x) = x^2 + 3x - 4

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Statistical Learning Theory: VC Dimension, Structural Risk Minimization

Sometimes our models overfit, sometimes they overfit.

A model’s capacity is, informally, its ability to fit a wide variety of functions. As a simple example, a linear regression model with a single parameter has a much lower capacity than a linear regression model with multiple polynomial parameters. Different datasets demand models of different capacity, and each time we apply a model to a dataset we run the risk of overfitting or underfitting our data.

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DropConnect Implementation in Python and TensorFlow

I wouldn’t expect DropConnect to appear in TensorFlow, Keras, or Theano since, as far as I know, it’s used pretty rarely and doesn’t seem as well-studied or demonstrably more useful than its cousin, Dropout. However, there don’t seem to be any implementations out there, so I’ll provide a few ways of doing so. Continue reading “DropConnect Implementation in Python and TensorFlow”

Style Transfer with Tensorflow

“A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” is an accessible and intriguing paper about the distinction and separability of image content and image style using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this post we’ll explain the paper and then run a few of our own experiments.

To begin, consider van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”: Continue reading “Style Transfer with Tensorflow”