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Machine learning audio course, teaching the fundamentals of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It covers intuition, models (shallow and deep), math, languages, frameworks, etc. Where your other ML resources provide the trees, I provide the forest. Consider MLG your syllabus, with highly-curated resources for each episode’s details at ocdevel.com. Audio is a great supplement during exercise, commute, chores, etc.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-22
Tools discussed:
Other:
Boost programming productivity by acting as a pair programming partner. Groups these tools into three categories:
• Hands-Off Tools: These include solutions that work on fixed monthly fees and require minimal user intervention. GitHub Copilot started with simple tab completions and now offers an agent mode similar to Cursor, which stands out for its advanced codebase indexing and intelligent file searching. Windsurf is noted for its simplicity—accepting prompts and performing automated edits—but some users report performance throttling after prolonged use.
• Hands-On Tools: Aider is presented as a command-line utility that demands configuration and user involvement. It allows developers to specify files and settings, and it efficiently manages token usage by sending prompts in diff format. Aider also implements an “architect versus edit” approach: a reasoning model (such as DeepSeek R1) first outlines a sequence of changes, then an editor model (like Claude 3.5 Sonnet) produces precise code edits. This dual-model strategy enhances accuracy and reduces token costs, especially for complex tasks.
• Intermediate Power Tools: Open-source tools such as Cline and its more advanced fork, RooCode, require users to supply their own API keys and pay per token. These tools offer robust, agentic features, including codebase indexing, file editing, and even browser automation. RooCode stands out with its ability to autonomously expand functionality through integrations (for example, managing cloud resources or querying issue trackers), making it particularly attractive for tinkerers and power users.
A decision framework is suggested: for those new to AI coding assistants or with limited budgets, starting with Cursor (or cautiously exploring Copilot’s new features) is recommended. For developers who want to customize their workflow and dive deep into the tooling, RooCode or Cline offer greater control—always paired with Aider for precise and token-efficient code edits.
Also reviews model performance using a coding benchmark leaderboard that updates frequently. The current top-performing combination uses DeepSeek R1 as the architect and Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the editor, with alternatives such as OpenAI’s O1 and O3 Mini available. Tools like Open Router are mentioned as a way to consolidate API key management and reduce token costs.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/33
3Blue1Brown videos: https://3blue1brown.com/
Background & Motivation:
Core Architecture:
Self-Attention Mechanism:
Masking:
Feed-Forward Networks (MLPs):
Residual Connections & Normalization:
Scalability & Efficiency Considerations:
Training Paradigms & Emergent Properties:
Interpretability & Knowledge Distribution:
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-21
Raybeam and Databricks: Ming Chang from Raybeam discusses Raybeam's focus on data science and analytics, and how their recent acquisition by Dept Agency has expanded their scope into ML Ops and AI. Raybeam often utilizes Databricks due to its comprehensive nature.
Understanding Databricks: Contrary to initial assumptions, Databricks is not just an analytics platform like Tableau but an ML Ops platform competing with tools like SageMaker and Kubeflow. It offers functionalities for creating notebooks, executing Python code, and using a hosted Spark cluster and Delta Lake for data storage.
Choosing the Right MLOps Tool: Depending on client requirements, Raybeam might recommend different tools. Decision factors include client's existing expertise, infrastructure needs, and scaling challenges. Databricks is often recommended for its ease of use and features.
Databricks Features: Offers a hosted solution for Spark clusters on AWS, Azure, or GCP; integrates with IDEs like VSCode through Databricks Connect; provides a unique Git integration for version control of notebooks; and utilizes Delta Lake for version control of Parquet files, enhancing operations like edit and delete.
Parquet and Delta Lake: Parquet files are optimized for big data, and Delta Lake provides transaction-like operations over Parquet by maintaining version history.
Pricing and Usage: Databricks adds a nominal fee on top of cloud provider charges. It's accessible for single developers and startups, making it suitable for various scales of operations.
Ming Chang's Picks: Discusses interests in automated stock trading projects and building drones with Raspberry Pi, highlighting the intersection of programming and physical computing.
For a hands-on look at Ming Chang's drone project, follow his developments or connect for insights on building a Raspberry Pi-powered drone.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-20
Conversation with Dirk-Jan Kubeflow (vs cloud native solutions like SageMaker)
Dirk-Jan Verdoorn - Data Scientist at Dept Agency
Kubeflow. (From the website:) The Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes. The Kubeflow project is dedicated to making deployments of machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. Our goal is not to recreate other services, but to provide a straightforward way to deploy best-of-breed open-source systems for ML to diverse infrastructures. Anywhere you are running Kubernetes, you should be able to run Kubeflow.
TensorFlow Extended (TFX). If using TensorFlow with Kubeflow, combine with TFX for maximum power. (From the website:) TensorFlow Extended (TFX) is an end-to-end platform for deploying production ML pipelines. When you're ready to move your models from research to production, use TFX to create and manage a production pipeline.
Alternatives:
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-19
Chatting with co-workers about the role of DevOps in a machine learning engineer's life
Expert coworkers at Dept
Devops tools
Pictures (funny and serious)
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-18
(Optional episode) just showcasing a cool application using machine learning
Dept uses Descript for some of their podcasting. I'm using it like a maniac, I think they're surprised at how into it I am. Check out the transcript & see how it performed.
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Show notes: ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-17
Developing on AWS first (SageMaker or other)
Consider developing against AWS as your local development environment, rather than only your cloud deployment environment. Solutions:
Connect to deployed infrastructure via Client VPN
Infrastructure as Code
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Full note at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-16
Part 2 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps)
MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.)
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Show notes Part 1 of deploying your ML models to the cloud with SageMaker (MLOps)
MLOps is deploying your ML models to the cloud. See MadeWithML for an overview of tooling (also generally a great ML educational run-down.)
And I forgot to mention JumpStart, I'll mention next time.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-14
Server-side ML. Training & hosting for inference, with a goal towards serverless. AWS SageMaker, Batch, Lambda, EFS, Cortex.dev
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-13
Client, server, database, etc.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-12
Use Docker for env setup on localhost & cloud deployment, instead of pyenv / Anaconda. I recommend Windows for your desktop.
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Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/32.
L1/L2 norm, Manhattan, Euclidean, cosine distances, dot product
Normed distances link
Dot product
Cosine (normalized dot)
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-11
Kmeans (sklearn vs FAISS), finding n_clusters via inertia/silhouette, Agglomorative, DBSCAN/HDBSCAN
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Full note at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-10
NLTK: swiss army knife. Gensim: LDA topic modeling, n-grams. spaCy: linguistics. transformers: high-level business NLP tasks.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-9
matplotlib, Seaborn, Bokeh, D3, Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, Excel
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-8
EDA + charting. DataFrame info/describe, imputing strategies. Useful charts like histograms and correlation matrices.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-7
Run your code + visualizations in the browser: iPython / Jupyter Notebooks.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-6
Salary based on location, gender, age, tech... from O'Reilly.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-5
Dimensions, size, and shape of Numpy ndarrays / TensorFlow tensors, and methods for transforming those.
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/mla-3
Comparison of different data storage options when working with your ML models.
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Some numerical data nitty-gritty in Python.
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Reboot on the MLG episode, with more confident recommends.
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Introduction to reinforcement learning concepts. ocdevel.com/mlg/29 for notes and resources.
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Hyperparameters part 2: hyper-search, regularization, SGD optimizers, scaling. ocdevel.com/mlg/28 for notes and resources
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Hyperparameters part 1: network architecture. ocdevel.com/mlg/27 for notes and resources
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Community project & intro to Bitcoin/crypto + trading. ocdevel.com/mlg/26 for notes and resources
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Convnets or CNNs. Filters, feature maps, window/stride/padding, max-pooling. ocdevel.com/mlg/25 for notes and resources
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TensorFlow, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Keras, TensorForce. ocdevel.com/mlg/24 for notes and resources
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RNN review, bi-directional RNNs, LSTM & GRU cells. ocdevel.com/mlg/23 for notes and resources
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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Word2Vec. ocdevel.com/mlg/22 for notes and resources
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Natural Language Processing classical/shallow algorithms. ocdevel.com/mlg/20 for notes and resources
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Natural Language Processing classical/shallow algorithms. ocdevel.com/mlg/19 for notes and resources
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Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) topics. ocdevel.com/mlg/18 for notes and resources
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At this point, browse #importance:essential on ocdevel.com/mlg/resources with the 45m/d ML, 15m/d Math breakdown.
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Can AI be conscious? ocdevel.com/mlg/16 for notes and resources
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Performance evaluation & improvement. ocdevel.com/mlg/15 for notes and resources
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/14
Speed run of Anomaly Detection, Recommenders(Content Filtering vs Collaborative Filtering), and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). ocdevel.com/mlg/14 for notes and resources
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Speed run of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Naive Bayes Classifier. ocdevel.com/mlg/13 for notes and resources
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Speed-run of some shallow algorithms: K Nearest Neighbors (KNN); K-means; Apriori; PCA; Decision Trees
ocdevel.com/mlg/12 for notes and resources
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Languages & frameworks comparison. Languages: Python, R, MATLAB/Octave, Julia, Java/Scala, C/C++. Frameworks: Hadoop/Spark, Deeplearning4J, Theano, Torch, TensorFlow. ocdevel.com/mlg/10 for notes and resources
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Deep learning and neural networks. How to stack our logisitic regression units into a multi-layer perceptron. ocdevel.com/mlg/9 for notes and resources
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Introduction to the branches of mathematics used in machine learning. Linear algebra, statistics, calculus. ocdevel.com/mlg/8 for notes and resources
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Full notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/7. See Andrew Ng Week 3 Lecture Notes
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Pursuing Machine Learning:Try a walking desk to stay healthy while you study or work!
Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/5. See Andrew Ng Week 2 Lecture Notes
Key ConceptsAccess to Andrew Ng's Course on Coursera is encouraged to gain in-depth understanding and application skills in machine learning.
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This episode covers four major philosophical topics related to artificial intelligence. The purpose is to give broader context to why AI matters, before moving into technical details in later episodes.
1. Economic AutomationAI is automating not just simple tasks like data entry or tax prep, but also high-skill jobs such as medical diagnostics, surgery, and creative work like design, music, and art. There are two common reactions:
The singularity refers to a point of runaway technological growth, where AI becomes capable of improving itself recursively. This concept is tied to "artificial general intelligence" and "seed AI"—systems that not only perform tasks but create better versions of themselves. The idea is that this could trigger extremely rapid change, possibly representing a new phase of evolution beyond humanity.
3. ConsciousnessI explore whether consciousness can emerge from machines. Since the brain is a physical machine and consciousness arises from it, it's possible that artificial systems could develop similar properties. Related ideas:
I discuss scenarios where AI causes harm not through malevolence but through poorly defined objectives. One example is the "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment, where an AI tasked with maximizing paperclip production might consume all resources to do so. This has led some public figures to raise concerns about AI safety. I don't share the same level of concern, but the topic is worth being aware of.
ReferencesIn the next episode, I begin covering the technical foundations of machine learning, starting with supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
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Show notes at ocdevel.com/mlg/2
Updated! Skip to [00:29:36] for Data Science (new content) if you've already heard this episode.
What is artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science? What are their differences? AI history.
Hierarchical breakdown: DS(AI(ML)). Data science: any profession dealing with data (including AI & ML). Artificial intelligence is simulated intellectual tasks. Machine Learning is algorithms trained on data to learn patterns to make predictions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - WikipediaOxford Languages: the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.
AlphaGo Movie, very good!
Applications
Oxford Languages: the use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions, by using algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data.
Data Science (DS) - WikipediaWikipedia: Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of application domains. Data science is related to data mining, machine learning and big data.
History1700s-1800s: Statistics & Mathematical decision making
1936: Universal Turing Machine
50s-70s: "AI" coined @Dartmouth workshop 1956 - goal to simulate all aspects of intelligence. John McCarthy, Marvin Minksy, Arthur Samuel, Oliver Selfridge, Ray Solomonoff, Allen Newell, Herbert Simon
90s: Data, Computation, Practical Application -> AI back (90s)
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Show notes: ocdevel.com/mlg/1. MLG teaches the fundamentals of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It covers intuition, models, math, languages, frameworks, etc. Where your other ML resources provide the trees, I provide the forest. Consider MLG your syllabus, with highly-curated resources for each episode's details at ocdevel.com. Audio is a great supplement during exercise, commute, chores, etc.
Who is it for
Why audio?
What it's not
Planned episodes
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