* Welcome Noah Gift

[Tim Cooke]

This week, we're delighted to have Noah Gift helping to answer questions about the new book Pragmatic AI.


The promotion starts Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 and will end on Friday, September 28th, 2018

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Addison-Wesley Professional.


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

[Randy Tong]

Welcome Noah Gift

[Campbell Ritchie]

Good to see you here: welcome. I hope you have lots of interesting questions.

[Liutauras Vilda]

Welcome, Noah, and have a great promo week

[Ganesh Patekar]

Welcome to CodeRanch !!  

[Jorge Ruiz-Aquino]

Welcome Noah Gift,

Congratulations on getting your book published!

[Noah Gift]

Great to meet everyone!  Looking forward to talking to everyone.

[Mandar Lad]

Welcome Noah,

Congratulations for your book on Artificial Intelligence. Wishing it a great success! I am sure it will help novices such as me to gain a good starting ground and enter this exciting field of science.

Regards,
Mandar

[yuli escobar]

Congratulations Noah!

[Gary W. Lucas]

Noah,

You had me at "pragmatic".

Welcome to the forum.  I've just taken a look at the table of contents for your book and I've got to say you've got a really interesting combination of topics. Some problems are best approached from multiple directions, and I think that AI may be one of those.  I'm looking forward to reading your book.

Gary

[Noah Gift]

Gary W. Lucas wrote:
Noah,

You had me at "pragmatic".

Welcome to the forum.  I've just taken a look at the table of contents for your book and I've got to say you've got a really interesting combination of topics. Some problems are best approached from multiple directions, and I think that AI may be one of those.  I'm looking forward to reading your book.

Gary

Gary this is really were I see a ton of opportunity being able to get results quickly using whatever makes sense:  APIS, high level tools, the cloud.  I have heard in the Bay Area there are often multiple data engineers hired to support one data scientist.  To me this highlights, there are more practical approaches needed to get results quickly.

[Jorge Ruiz-Aquino]

Gary W. Lucas wrote:
You had me at "pragmatic".

Yeah! Me too. I though that your book was part of the Pargmatic bookshelf so I searched on the complete list.  

[Randy Maddocks]

Welcome Noah, and congratulations on your book! Best wishes in your writing career.

[Bob Jake]

Curious to see the definition of Pragmatic here. Is this pragmatic process or pragmatic 'bias' results ?

[Noah Gift]

Bob Jake wrote:Curious to see the definition of Pragmatic here. Is this pragmatic process or pragmatic 'bias' results ?

The process is pragmatic here.  The general problem I have seen both an engineering manager and a professor is a lack of "bias for action" to use a phrase they use at Amazon.  How can an individual or organization get past the theoretical and get into solving a solution an efficient and effective way.  For example, maybe using a high level tool like AWS Sagemaker to deploy a machine learning model could be called pragmatic vs rolling your own ML model into production and deploying into manually orchestrated web services.

[clay press]

After reading:

the book's Table Of Contents,
the publisher\s description -  informit.com,
the book's github repo -  /github.com/noahgift/pragmaticai
the author's background - noahgift.com,

it is clear this book, "Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning",  is written at the right time by the right author using the right language, python,   Welcome Noah!

[Noah Gift]

clay press wrote:

After reading:

the book's Table Of Contents,
the publisher\s description -  informit.com,
the book's github repo -  /github.com/noahgift/pragmaticai
the author's background - noahgift.com,

it is clear this book, "Pragmatic AI: An Introduction to Cloud-Based Machine Learning",  is written at the right time by the right author using the right language, python,   Welcome Noah!

Thanks for the vote of support Clay.  Note, I have actually accelerated creating additional content around this topic and there is are many additional and related items to the book here:  https://github.com/noahgift/functional_intro_to_python#safari-online-training--essential-machine-learning-and-exploratory-data-analysis-with-python-and-jupyter-notebook.  If you look at these four colab notebooks, they are churning at least a monthly basis as I find new ideas on the subject.  Hopefully these can be beneficial as well.

[Bob Jake]

Noah Gift wrote:

Bob Jake wrote:Curious to see the definition of Pragmatic here. Is this pragmatic process or pragmatic 'bias' results ?

The process is pragmatic here.  The general problem I have seen both an engineering manager and a professor is a lack of "bias for action" to use a phrase they use at Amazon.  How can an individual or organization get past the theoretical and get into solving a solution an efficient and effective way.  For example, maybe using a high level tool like AWS Sagemaker to deploy a machine learning model could be called pragmatic vs rolling your own ML model into production and deploying into manually orchestrated web services.

Great!. Looking forward to read your book.

[Nurzalat Alimzhan uulu]

* Welcome Noah Gift. Pragmatic AI

[Tim Cooke]

A gentle reminder: As noted in the welcome post at the top of this thread, questions asked in this thread are not eligible for the winners draw at the end of the week. Be sure to ask your questions with a new topic in this forum.

[Juozas Nakvosas]

I'm a highschooler and just discovered this site while trying to learn to code AI so here's hoping I get a book that helps me with it