Gradient ascent for your career
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Claims that AI/ML drives massive job and market growth (37% in data/AI jobs, 40–50% YoY software market, ~100k LinkedIn openings) pair with concrete tooling and outcomes: TensorFlow Certificate has ~5,000 holders; prototypes export to TF or ONNX then run on AWS/GCP App Engine; simple demos deploy in ~30 minutes but production systems need engineering for reliability at scale. Examples: Booking.com runs ~150 models, top teams deploy every five minutes vs quarterly, and a portfolio of 100+ Alexa skills reached ~1M users — models often fail first for label errors, imbalance, bias, or wrong business metric.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introductions
- 1:20Economic impact of AI
- 10:13Engineering reality in ML
- 21:26Building career networks
- 36:15Entrepreneurship and passion
- 49:02Q&A session
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