Last week, I was at Desert Code Camp, giving a “Deep Learning Basics” presentation. It was a good time speaking with other developers, sharing what I could, and answering questions.
If you haven’t heard anyone who speaks or teaches say this, the preparation makes you learn more about a subject than you might not have learned normally. The questions are also excellent. Some are similar from time to time (assuming it’s the same talk) but others are often windows into what people are thinking. e.g. just last week someone was interested in the retraining scenario where the data is constantly updating and you need to retrain the model. There isn’t any one answer and a couple people with different ideas participated in the discussion for a few minutes. While discussion veered a bit off topic for the subject, that was fun (hopefully for everyone).
Here’s the code and presentation slides:
In a little more than a week, Oct 26th, 2019, I’ll be speaking at the Phoenix Mobile Festival on “AI In Your App – ML.NET and Xamarin”. No code yet because this is the first time for this presentation and the bits aren’t ready. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Xamarin (the mobile part), but I’m excited about ML.NET, which is a good option for C# developers to write AI code.
What’s great about these events is that they’re free. I don’t make any money and neither do organizers. I guess there could be a lot to be said about why people engage in such complex community building activities, but maybe it’s just a great experience. If you make it, please stop and say “Hi”.
Joe Mayo 