These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #94: Neuroevolution: Evolving Novel Neural Network Architectures with Kenneth Stanley You can listen to the podcast here. Kenneth studied under TWiML Talk #47 guest Risto Miikkulainen at UT Austin, and joined Uber AI Labs after Geometric Intelligence , the company he co-founded with Gary Marcus and others, was acquired in late 2016.

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These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Learning State Representations with Yael Niv: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #92: Learning State Representations with Yael Niv You can listen to the podcast here. In this interview Yael and I explore the relationship between neuroscience and machine learning. In particular, we discusses the importance of state representations in human learning, some of her experimental results in this area, and how a better understanding of representation learning can lead to insights into machine learning problems such as reinforcement and transfer learning.

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These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-92-learning-state-representations-yael-niv/ Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #92: Philosophy of Intelligence with Matthew Crosby You can listen to the podcast here. This week on the podcast we’re featuring a series of conversations from the NIPs conference in Long Beach, California. I attended a bunch of talks and learned a ton, organized an impromptu roundtable on Building AI Products, and met a bunch of great people, including some former TWiML Talk guests.

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These are my sketchnotes taken from the “This week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast number 88 about Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #88: Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographics with Timnit Gebru

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Slides from Münster Data Science Meetup These are my slides from the Münster Data Science Meetup on December 12th, 2017. knitr::include_url("https://shiring.github.io/netlify_images/lime_meetup_slides_wvsh6s.pdf") My sketchnotes were collected from these two podcasts: https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-7-carlos-guestrin-explaining-predictions-machine-learning-models/ https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2016/trusting-machine-learning-models-with-lime Sketchnotes: TWiML Talk #7 with Carlos Guestrin – Explaining the Predictions of Machine Learning Models & Data Skeptic Podcast - Trusting Machine Learning Models with Lime Example Code the following libraries were loaded: library(tidyverse) # for tidy data analysis library(farff) # for reading arff file library(missForest) # for imputing missing values library(dummies) # for creating dummy variables library(caret) # for modeling library(lime) # for explaining predictions Data The Chronic Kidney Disease dataset was downloaded from UC Irvine’s Machine Learning repository: http://archive.

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