2022 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: The Farama Foundation

By Andrew Fairless on December 22, 2022November 5, 2022

https://farama.org/Announcing-The-Farama-Foundation Announcing The Farama FoundationThe future of open source reinforcement learning25 October 2022 “This means that the barrier to reinforcement learning seeing widespread deployment is a tooling problem…. Our grandContinue readingWhat I Read: The Farama Foundation

What I Read: Pre-Trained Models, Robotics

By Andrew Fairless on December 21, 2022November 5, 2022

https://sergeylevine.substack.com/p/general-purpose-pre-trained-models General-Purpose Pre-Trained Models in RoboticsCan we (pre-) train policies to control any robot for any task?Sergey LevineOct 16 “In robotics, learning policies from a small amount of data isContinue readingWhat I Read: Pre-Trained Models, Robotics

What I Read: undesired goals

By Andrew Fairless on December 20, 2022November 5, 2022

How undesired goals can arise with correct rewardsRohin Shah, Victoria Krakovna, Vikrant Varma, Zachary KentonOctober 7, 2022 “As we build increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, we want to makeContinue readingWhat I Read: undesired goals

What I Read: Bayesian Structural Timeseries

By Andrew Fairless on December 14, 2022November 5, 2022

Bayesian Structural Timeseries – ForecastingNathaniel FordeAug 15, 2022 “Bayesian structural timeseries assumes that the past is a guide to the future, and that if we can characterise the processes whichContinue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian Structural Timeseries

What I Read: Dev and Data Science Independence

By Andrew Fairless on December 13, 2022November 5, 2022

https://medium.com/riskified-technology/how-we-enabled-dev-and-data-science-independence-with-clear-api-boundaries-3a6a28597746 How We Enabled Dev and Data Science Independence With Clear API Boundaries Using Airflow and DatabricksUri BrodskyOct 18 “In this post, I will show you how we enabled ourContinue readingWhat I Read: Dev and Data Science Independence

What I Read: Speech Recognition Metrics

By Andrew Fairless on December 12, 2022November 5, 2022

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2022/10/evolution-speech-recognition-metrics.html The Evolution of Speech Recognition MetricsBy Piyush Behre, Principal Applied Scientist at MicrosoftOctober 20, 2022 “As Speech Recognition has become more accurate than ever, scenarios like dictation and meetingContinue readingWhat I Read: Speech Recognition Metrics

What I Read: Sins, Numerical Linear Algebra

By Andrew Fairless on December 7, 2022October 20, 2022

https://nhigham.com/2022/10/11/seven-sins-of-numerical-linear-algebra/ Seven Sins of Numerical Linear AlgebraNick HighamPosted on October 11, 2022 by Nick Higham “In numerical linear algebra we are concerned with solving linear algebra problems accurately and efficientlyContinue readingWhat I Read: Sins, Numerical Linear Algebra

What I Read: Key-Value Databases

By Andrew Fairless on December 5, 2022October 20, 2022

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/04/nosql-explained-understanding-key-value-databases.html Key-Value Databases, ExplainedBy Alex Williams, Hosting Data UK on October 4, 2022 in SQL “Among the four big NoSQL database types, key-value stores are probably the most popular onesContinue readingWhat I Read: Key-Value Databases

What I Read: Data Engineers, What’s the profession about

By Andrew Fairless on December 1, 2022October 20, 2022

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2022/10/11-questions-data-engineers-profession-heading.html 11 Questions About Data Engineers: What’s the profession about, and where’s it heading?I hope my answers will be useful to novice data engineers and anyone interested in data engineering.ByContinue readingWhat I Read: Data Engineers, What’s the profession about

Year: 2022