WiMLDS NYC: October 2021 Newsletter
Special Announcement
Two Reminders:
- We plan to publish a quarterly Q&A with a chapter member who would like to be featured on our new blog. If (a) you have just completed a certificate/degree or (b) you are seeking a career or job change, this platform may be a great way to publicize your accomplishments and goals.
- We are seeking one or more volunteers to assist us with virtual event administration through 2021.
Please reach out to us at nyc@wimlds.org if you are interested in being featured in a publication or fill out this form if you are interested in volunteering.
Upcoming WiMLDS Event
Please register through meetup for this event! We are limiting attendance to ensure we have an optimal ratio between participants and recruiters.
Details
How’s your personal elevator pitch? Find out from tech recruiters at top companies in this one-hour networking event hosted by WiMLDS in partnership with Cider. Cider enables companies to increase the talent pool by identifying qualified non-traditional candidates who would otherwise be missed.
During this event, you will have a chance to sit one-on-one with top tech recruiters and give your personal elevator pitch to get constructive feedback from them. You will also have the opportunity to learn about the approach one corporation is taking to diversity, inclusion, and belonging and to connect with other participants in smaller breakout rooms during the meetup.
Stay tuned for more event details and the list of recruiters!
Recurring WiMLDS Event
We will continue to co-host a regular “Bicoastal Code, Coffee, and Quarantine” with the Bay Area Chapter where we may network, seek project advice and learn from each other.
If you would like to be a featured presenter in 4Q, please fill out this form or reach out to us at nyc@wimlds.org.
Inspiration Corner
United Nations: International Day of the Girl Child
Monday, October 11th, was International Day of the Girl Child (also called the Day of Girls and the International Day of the Girl), which is an international observance day declared by the United Nations. It “focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote their empowerment”. This year’s observance day was prompted by the gender digital divide that has been observable throughout the COVID-19 pandemic:
“Girls know their digital realities and the solutions they need to excel on their diverse pathways as technologists for freedom of expression, joy, and boundless potential. Let’s amplify the diversity of these tech trailblazers while simultaneously widening the pathways so that every girl, this generation of girls — regardless of race, gender, language, ability, economic status and geographic origin — lives their full potential.”
To spread the word and inspire the next generation of technologists, several hashtags were trending across social media platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn, including the ones featured below:
#ThisLittleGirlIsMe #DayOfTheGirl #InternationalDayOfGirlChild
Can you identify this future WiMLDS Organizer?? 😄
External Events
COMMUNITY PROJECT: THE BIG SCIENCE INITIATIVE via Aggregate Intellect
“The Aggregate Intellect community will be focused on dataset management to mitigate legal & societal concerns. Specifically, over the next few months we will be organizing several 16-day modules where individuals and teams can work on creating an open source tool that can remediate and replace PII (Personally Identifiable Information) from datasets used to train gigantic language models.
Some minimal prerequisites: We are looking for experience with NLP projects in Python and experience with RegEx. And participants also need to have working fluency in English, Mandarin, Hindi, Farsi or Arabic.“
Date and Time: October cohort is in progress.
Note: Several more modules will take place this year if you would like to participate. Please follow Aggregate Intellect through LinkedIn or Twitter for up-to-date announcements.
Hyper-Parameter Optimization: A First-Class Citizen In MLOPs via Open Data Science (ODSC) NY
Speaker: Ariel Biller, Evangelist at ClearML
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
“In this webinar, we will show how to organize and own the HPO process as a component of your MLOps, and allow for easy “ramp-up” from working code to intricate searches. We will briefly present HPO and MLOps, and detail an MLOps-enabled HPO workflow. Then, we will use the open-source ClearML to integrate HPO with an existing codebase.Following the integration, we will show both low-code and no-code approaches to perform HPO using Optuna with AWS auto-scaling on spot instances, incorporating early-stopping for underperforming hyperparameter combinations.”
LIVE TRAINING: October 21st: Getting Started with Practical MLOps [PAID EVENT] via Open Data Science (ODSC) NY
Instructor: Noah Gift, MLOps Expert | Solopreneur | Author | Duke & Northwestern & UC Davis Adjunct Professor | CTO | Pragmatic AI Labs
Date and Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
“Getting your models into production is the fundamental challenge of machine learning. MLOps offers a set of proven principles aimed at solving this problem in a reliable and automated way. This training takes you through what MLOps is (and how it differs from DevOps) and shows you how to put it into practice to operationalize your machine learning models. Current and aspiring machine learning engineers — or anyone familiar with data science and Python — will build a foundation in MLOps tools and methods (along with AutoML and monitoring and logging), then learn how to implement them in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The faster you deliver a machine learning system that works, the faster you can focus on the business problems you’re trying to crack. This training gives you a head start.”
Conferences
- PyData Global Conference: October 28–30, 2021
- The AI Summit Silicon Valley: November 3–4, 2021
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: November 7–11, 2021
- NVIDIA GTC: November 7–11, 2021 (Free Conference for AI Innovators, Technologists & Creators)
- AIxIA — Artificial Intelligence Meets Intelligence Artificielle: November 18–19, 2021
- Neural Information Processing Systems (IPS) 2021: November 27 — December 5, 2021
- AI & Big Data Expo Europe: November 30 — December 1, 2021
- ***AI Summit New York: December 8–9, 2021***
