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The latest on Masterful and tips on Machine Learning

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Yaoshiang Ho

Co-Founder and Head of Product

Discovering Pharmaceuticals using Machine Learning, with Ryan Emerson of A-Alpha Bio

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Yaoshiang Ho

A true “aha” conversation! Learn how deep learning techniques from natural language processing (NLP) are applied to drug discovery, specifically, protein to protein interactions. Includes a quick and dirty primer on just enough biology to understand the training data A-Alpha Bio uses for their ML models.

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Generating ROI from ML at “reasonable scale” e-commerce companies with Ciro Greco.

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Yaoshiang Ho

Ciro Greco has built ML systems at many named-brand retailers. In this episode, he gives us tips on getting value out of ML at “reasonable scale” companies with NLP and information retrieval. The concept of “reasonable scale” was one he returned to. and he clearly has a nuanced understanding of how that segment differs from the hyper scale tech giants. He also brings advanced ideas like embeddings from NLP towards e-commerce personalization. 

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Applying ML to Cybersecurity

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Yaoshiang Ho

Building Things with Machine Learning is Masterful AI's podcast covering interesting applications of machine learning. We started this podcast to focus less on innovative research, and more on the innovative ways ML is being applied to building products. 

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Building a baseball card valuation tool using ML

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Yaoshiang Ho

Building Things with Machine Learning is Masterful AI's podcast covering interesting applications of machine learning. We started this podcast to focus less on innovative research... and more on innovative ways ML is being applied to building products. 

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Masterful 0.5.2: The easiest way to train high performance object detection models

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Yaoshiang Ho

We've released Masterful 0.5.2, the platform that automates model development for computer vision. This release adds support for object detection, allowing developers to build detection models faster than ever before.

You can download it right now with a `pip install -U masterful`. 

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Masterful AI Developer Newsletter - July 2022

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Yaoshiang Ho
CLI

Hope you've been enjoying summer! 

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Announcing Masterful 0.4.1

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Yaoshiang Ho

We’re excited to announce the v0.4.1 release of Masterful, the training platform for computer vision models!

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It's time to use Semi-Supervised Learning for your CV models

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Yaoshiang Ho

Intro

Previously, we showed that throwing more training data at a deep learning model has rapidly diminishing returns. If doubling your labeling budget won’t move the needle, what next? Consider semi-supervised learning (SSL) to unlock the information in unlabeled data. 

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Announcing Masterful v0.4

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Yaoshiang Ho

Version 0.4 of Masterful

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Four buckets of deep learning innovation: architecture, data, regularization, and optimization

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Yaoshiang Ho

Intro

It’s hard to stay current and maintain competency in deep learning. It’s a young and fast growing field, which means that groundbreaking research and innovations are coming out really rapidly. But at Masterful, we don’t have a choice: we have to stay current because the promise we make to developers is that our platform automatically delivers state-of-the-art approaches for computer vision models (CV) in a robust and scalable way. 

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