Abstract: 

We will build and tweak several vision classifiers together starting with perceptrons and building up to transfer learning and convolutional neural networks. We will investigate practical implications of tweaking loss functions, gradient descent algorithms, network architectures, data normalization, data augmentation and so on. This class is super hands on and practical and requires no math or experience with deep learning.

Bio: 

Lukas Biewald is a co-founder and CEO of Weights and Biases which builds performance and visualization tools for machine learning teams and practitioners. Lukas also founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower) — a human in the loop platform transforms unstructured text, image, audio, and video data into customized high quality training data. — which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt. Prior to co-founding Weights and Biases and CrowdFlower, Biewald was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. From 2005 to 2006, Lukas also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan.