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The Dilemma

There are wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. Sackman et. al. found 10:1 ratios. The data showed no correlation between experience and performance.

The major part of the cost of large teams is communication, and system debugging to correct the ill effects of miscommunication.

ML Concepts

• Introduction to ML
• Framing
• Descending into ML
• Reducing Loss
• First Steps with TF
• Generalization
• Training and Test Sets
• Validation Set
• Representation
• Feature Crosses
• Regularization: Simplicity
• Logistic Regression
• Classification
• Regularization: Sparsity
• Neural Networks
• Training Neural Nets
• Multi-Class Neural Nets
• Embeddings

ML Engineering

• Production ML Systems
• Static vs. Dynamic Training
• Static vs. Dynamic Inference
• Data Dependencies
• Fairness

ML Systems in the Real World

• Cancer Prediction
• Literature
• Guidelines

Machine Learning Crash Course. Google. developers.google.com . 2020.