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Scale AI annonce cinq projets et 16,6 millions de dollars d’investissements en intelligence artificielle
Du contrôle qualité à l’optimisation des actifs en transport en passant par les outils diagnostic pour l’entretien des camions, chacun de ces projets démontre l’infinie diversité des applications de l’IA.

The 2021 Data Science Interview Report
We analyzed over 10,000 data science related interview experiences. Specifically we were looking at:
- How did Covid-19 change data science interviews in 2020?
- What question topics were asked most frequently?
- How do FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, etc..) data science interviews differ from other companies?
- What are the fastest growing data science positions?

[Podcast] The Data Engineering Landscape in 2021
Talk Python to Me - Episode 302
Data engineering is dedicated to overcoming data-processing bottlenecks, data cleanup, data flow and data-handling problems for applications that utilize lots of data. On this episode, we welcome back Tobias Macey to give us the 30,000 ft view of the data engineering landscape in 2021.

BBC News: The computers rejecting your job application
Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI recruitment. While recruiters have been using AI for around the past decade, the technology has been greatly refined in recent years. And demand for it has risen strongly since the pandemic, thanks to its convenience and fast results at a time when staff may be off due to Covid-19.

Google: Introducing Model Search - An Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models
[...] we are excited to announce the open source release of Model Search, a platform that helps researchers develop the best ML models, efficiently and automatically. Instead of focusing on a specific domain, Model Search is domain agnostic, flexible and is capable of finding the appropriate architecture that best fits a given dataset and problem, while minimizing coding time, effort and compute resources.

Événements

AWS Innovate – Édition IA/ML
Wednesday 24 February 2021 @ 12:00
Plongez-vous dans l'une des plus de 30 séances commerciales et techniques animées par les experts AWS. Ils vous feront part des dernières innovations en matière d'AI/ML, des concepts clés, des cas d'utilisation commerciale, des meilleures pratiques architecturales et répondront à vos questions en direct.

Meetup PyData Montreal #17: NLP
Thursday 25 February 2021 @ 17:30
- "Fine-tuning a large language model without your own supercomputer", Sylvain Gugger, Research Engineer at Hugging Face
- "Learning to translate with JoeyNMT", Julia Kreutzer, Research Scientist at Google Montreal
- "Understanding digital social trace data via Information Extraction", Shubhanshu Mishra, Machine Learning Researcher at Twitter

Meetup: Introduction à la programmation avec Python
Saturday 13 March 2021 @ 13:00
L’atelier s’adresse à un public adulte et se déroulera en français, avec possibilité de poser des questions en anglais. Aucune connaissance préalable exigée ou assumée :)

Datavore
Tuesday 16 March 2021 @ 08:00
16-17 mars 2021
Datavore, c’est un événement qui interpelle les passionnés de données qui en veulent toujours plus. Incontournable sur la scène de l’analytique au Québec depuis 14 ans, Datavore donne lieu à des apprentissages de toutes sortes: échanges sur les pratiques, partage d’expériences, rencontres fructueuses et nouvelles perspectives. L'édition 2021 sera 100% en ligne!