Mentoring Circle
The Mentoring Circle was developed to provide a variety of opportunities for members to connect mentees and mentors. Past offerings have included Q&A session, Office Hours, Resume Review, Study Groups, Women in the Workplace, Panel Discussions, Speed Mentoring and Soft Skills talks. Currently our Journal and Book Clubs are active weekly.
Mentor Circle Organizers
Journal Club
Read and discuss deep learning papers with your peers. Whether the paper is an earlier landmark paper or a recent state-of-the-art publication, the goal of the meetup is to learn something about the field for yourself and/or to teach and share your knowledge with others.
The idea is to pick a paper for everyone to read prior to the meeting. A 'lead' leads the discussions of the paper. They can do this however they wish, but using some sort of visual aid (such as slides or the paper itself) is suggested.
We'll do this remotely using video conferencing. A link will be posted a few minutes before each meeting.
Meets
Mondays
5- 6:30 pm
Location
Online
Book Club
I am excited to start a new book "Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop.
PDF link: http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~wurmd/Livros/school/Bishop%20-%20Pattern%20Recognition%20And%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Springer%20%202006.pdf
Author wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bishop
This book, for the people familiar with Machine learning, should be known. We chose this book as it's in-depth and cover all the possible explanation one could need to understand past, present or future research. It provides fundamental tools to deal and design new approaches.
Purpose and learning from this book:
- Fundamental learnings of the core concepts of Mathematics & ML (which are the major component of any researcher, scientist or job seeker)
- Learn to dissect problems in ML and possible tools available
- Build up ability to explain the concept and learn to read research material
- Get familiar with the pattern recognition which is the core component to teach any machine for solving a problem
- Learn by sharing, explaining knowledge with enthusiastic group
Couple changes discussed for this new bookclub:
(This new book club will still be voluntarily basis)
- Volunteers will chose a topic and try to wrap up the topic using any mean. Possible ways could be presenting their own notes, presentation, lecture notes, book section, blog post or even code.
- Purpose of the presenter should be to make sure everybody understand the topic in the group by the end of meetup (that day).
If the topic is very common and widely known, then there could be multiple topic discussions, but it can range from 1 to n topics/day.
- For a common topic someone can use their own codebase or someone else's code publicly available. There will be freedom of asking people to try out themselves if the presenter feels like. In these scenarios, providing pre-requisites or setting expectation 2-3 days in advance would be preferred.
We will meet at our usual time, every Tuesday from 06:00-07:30pm PST. Due to COVID, we will continue using Google Meet virtual events. Details of the meet link will be shared couple mins before the meetup on this slack channel.
The presenter and the discussion topic for each meeting will be decided a week in advance.
Hope to see you all. We will do these meetups via Google meet. The link will be posted on the Slack channel. To join please follow: https://datacircles.org/join-us and add to slack channel #deeplearning_bookclub
meets
Tuesdays
6-7:30pm
Location
Online
Other Events
Mentoring circle also offers additional events throughout the year including:
Soft Skills talks
Speed Mentoring
Panel Discussions
Study Groups
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