The AutoML Race, Starlink India & US Chief Data Scientist 🏇🌠🔭
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Alas, Google Wins The AutoML Race
Since 2014, AutoML has been an active area of research. Some of the prominent players include Google, DataRobot, Microsoft, H2O.ai, and Amazon. But, the question is, who is leading the AutoML race?
A closer look at the AutoML landscape revealed that Google is upping the game with 162 resources around AutoML on its website and about 153 open-source AutoML APIs, libraries and source code on GitHub.
Second in line is H2O.ai, followed by Amazon, DataRobot and Microsoft. AutoML seems to be Google’s all-time favourite/niche, besides other active areas of research like transformer, federated learning, self-supervised learning, etc.
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SpaceX Starlink’s India Ambitions
Back in February 2018, SpaceX launched its first two Starlink test crafts, named TinTinA and TinTinB. SpaceX’s satellite broadband arm, Starlink, can soon launch a satellite-based internet service in India, hopefully starting from December 2022, if everything goes well.
Recently, Sanjay Bhargava was appointed as the Starlink Country Director in India. He mentioned in a LinkedIn post that the company’s target is to have 2 lakh terminals active in India in December 2022. However, the actual numbers may vary; it may be much lower than what is intended or even “zero” if it does not get government approval.
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US Chief Data Scientist Post Still Vacant
In 2015, the Barack Obama government elected DJ Patil as the chief data scientist in his government. It was the first time that a role like this was carved in the US government. Infact, it was DJ Patil who coined the term "data scientist".
He worked in the position till 2017, before Donald Trump took office. Between 2017 and 2021 (till now), the office of the chief data scientist has been lying vacant.
Given the growing role of AI, data science, and machine learning, which are now more deeply penetrated in routine human lives, should Joe Biden consider filling the role of Chief Data Scientist?
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Sketch Note of the week
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Video of the week
This week's episode is a weekly update from the world of data science, everything from new launches, the latest research, cyber threats, and events that have happened in the last 7 days will be covered here.
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Hands-on Guides for ML Developers
+ A Guide to Vertex AI - A Unified MLOps Platform by Google
+ A Guide to Using AutoGluon for Automating Machine Learning Tasks
+ Building Scalable Machine Learning Models with TensorFlow 2.x
+ A Practitioners Guide to All New Features in SciKit-Learn 1.0
+ An Illustrated Guide to Dynamic Neural Networks for Beginners
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PEOPLE & STARTUPS
+ For A Career In Data Science, Create Strong Foundation Of Knowledge: Harsh Gupta, Cliently
+ How Godrej Housing Finance Blitzscaled During Pandemic, Using Its Risk Management Strategies
+ Tech Behind WebEngage’s Retention Operating System
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Yann LeCun Paper Rejected
Yann Andre LeCun, a French computer scientist who focuses on machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics, and computational neuroscience, recently tweeted that one of his articles has been rejected from NeurIPS 2021.
Yann recently co-authored an article with Adrien Bardes and Jean Ponce in NeurIPS titled “VICReg: Variance-Invariance-Covariance Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning” (ArXiv link), which has received 12 citations since May. However, to everyone’s surprise, the article was rejected.
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BOTTOM OF THE NEWS
Here's what all happened last week.
+ Google Aims To Train 40 Million New People With Cloud Skills
+ Byju's Launches Innovation Hub, Will Hire AI, ML Specialists In The US, UK, India
+ Karnataka To Set Up CoE For Artificial Intelligence In Hubballi
+ AWS To Prepare Indian Talent For Cloud Careers
+ Alphabet Owned Intelligence Lab DeepMind Turns Its First Profit
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