Putting the Rhythm into Algorithms and Artificial into Intelligence
Details
Schedule
from 5:30 - sign in at the concierge and a Belong team member will take you up in the lift. Grab a drink from the fridge
5:40 - pizza will hopefully arrive
6:00 - welcome & talk 1 - Phil Brierley
6:45 - break
7:00 - talk 2 - Ed Barker
Ever wondered how machine learning algorithms work?
From linear regression to reinforcement learning, we'll have a Smörgåsbord on offer.
Talk 1
Phil Brierley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philbrierley/
Phil will demonstrate the family tree of algorithms from linear regression to neural nets and tree based methods, and how they all can be enhanced with tricks such as bagging and boosting.
It will be the long promised prequel to.... https://youtu.be/1fIyQL9FiAk
Talk 2
Ed Barker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-barker-8a5588114/
Ed will give an overview of Reinforcement Learning...
(1) A brief introduction to RL, covering the core concepts and some of the original algorithms from the 80s/90s;
(2) A summary of some of the latest stuff being done by Google DeepMind which uses deep RL (in particular AlphaGo Zero, and their Atari and Quake III playing agents); and,
(3) Some of the potential commercial applications of RL.