Hey Dan How's It going?Hey Siraj Mind if i ask you a Few questions
Let'S do it all right Well How much do you Sleep Every night about Six hours where do you live
In amsterdam Where did you Study at columbia University What'S your favorite. Book
The Road By Cormac mcCarthy What is the coolest deep learning Project You've Seen
Open Mind By Andrew trask
Do you Need to know Very
Complex Math At The Level of Calculus or Linear algebra to start on the path of Deep learning no in fact you Just Need to
Know
Programming and if You can Code with Caras You can do this Stuff in nine or ten lines of code if you want to get
more Advanced Than You'll use some Math How long did it take You to get into machine Learning
It took me i was on and off for about three Years but. To really Get started It took me about three months i
Live in the developing Country How can i make a positive change here through machine learning there is always an Opportunity
To use machine learning in some way Find a problem that you want
To solve That's the first step and once you do
Apply Machine Learning to It you can Always do that in order to master deep learning is there
Javascript Comes in At a close Second and also Go is a Great language
Which Courses that You take a uni that you would Recommend uh
At My University
There were i mean it Was it Was a close
University But online i could Say a Great core to take is the udacity deep learning nano degree as Well as Andrew Means
New deep learning Course
Can They i be used to retouch Skin Portions by Removing Blemishes Playing With Photoshop oh for sure yeah that would be a
That Would be a generative problem so you don't you'd want
to use an auto encoder to encode that Image and then You would Learn The
Latent Representation and then You could Generate an Image Without The Blemishes Which country Would you like to visit most
I'm really Excited to go to india in five Days so i will be in india i'm Very Excited and if You've started Today Which
Learning Resource Would You use to master deep Learning i
Wonder What i would use my Channel for sure my Channel and also i would look at
Udacity And coursera How can introverted or shy People improve their confidence to be more like you as these traits are helpful in tech
It Just Takes a Lot Of practice I'm not Naturally a super social person but but Just By
Constantly Putting Myself Out there in front of The World
Being vulnerable It Definitely Just Builds Up your confidence so it's a discipline that you build Up over time What Drives you to create YouTube
Content Instead of Working on some high-end ai or machine learning research Independently or collaboratively
With Great Minds of Our time i would love to do a Project that is put in the Hands of millions of Users
but it's Kind of a sacrifice right Making content is my Way of Making Impact i could do One or the other
Ideally i could do both we'll see we'll see where that Goes have you ever tried Clarify School Image recognition
Technology Which Is a Direct competitor to Google i have i think it's really easy to use and Thumbs Up
What do you think about
Independent Startups competing With Big giants and ai Tech's Such as Google Microsoft Amazon and Why would you prefer one over the other such as
Clarify Versus Google
There is definitely a Space for Startups for sure
There's so many different Exit strategies There's so much different data That's available
for Small Startups That You can use at Google or Amazon or the giants Haven't used yet
There's the Space is Really Hot so don't be don't be discouraged by the fact that Google and all These Big companies Exist
okay well if you were an element What element Would you be called and What Would Your properties be i
Would be
Suraj Iam and My properties would be
Dreaming Big and
competence and
science
Scientific Thinking Lots of Managers Lack an Understanding of It and What Ml is capable of and you
Experience How Would you best manage the Expectations of What Is possible and What is realistic
well Yeah i mean the standard Rules Rules Apply of
Under promising and Over delivering so Just
You'd have to have a Good knowledge of Your problem domain first and if You do and then Be Able to say What you can
and Cannot Do Don't Just Make Bs promises Because That's gonna backfire
Do you stand for net Neutrality and how is It important to you oh for sure we the internet is it has to be a
Level Playing Field I Mean i went from zero to i think 170K subscribers Just on my own so far and
yeah if Net Neutrality Didn'T Exist The top creators on YouTube Would Just Get Higher
And hire interns with subscribers and i would still be at you know zero to 30 k Subs we Need it
How do i start My Journey as a Text Feeder uh
somewhere right i Mean You always Have Meetups Near you Just do something small and Work your Way up
Build a name for Yourself your name is your Brand Build It start somewhere
Do you Get Sponsored By Conference organizers for Your talks i
Have Been offered and i've Just started to do the Whole speaking Thing in person i mean i could Just Make videos
so yeah i'm gonna start Charging soon Because It takes a Time time Tech Rifice away from my other content
Whether You start with machine Learning i
Started I Mean it's Kind of ambiguous like i started in college When i was a sophomore
you Know i Dabbled in it but i only Really Seriously Got started about a Year and a Half ago When i started this Channel
What problems Could You resolve with deep learning technology in Ten Years
Me personally or Just in General a Lot of applications in Health care
Taking Away a Lot of The Grunt Work that doctors have to do and also in
democratizing data There's a Huge Opportunity There Because Everybody Wants data but data isn't accessible to everybody
so any Kind of Project that Does that Helps with that Is a Good opportunity
Do you Watch a TV shows like Silicon Valley mr. Robot or west World and if you Watch them what do you think i
Have Heard of them i've Seen the first episode of silicon Valley it's too Much Like My life so i'm not gonna Watch It i
Don't have time to Watch That Much Long-form content i watch a Lot of YouTube but not really long with TV shows
What Role do you think that there's a machine that you Should Play Reading Bias in machine Learning
Minorities it all Comes back to the data make sure that you have quality diverse data right?
Overfitting Can Result in The Things we've Seen in the news Where there is bias in terms of Race so make sure you
Have diverse data
Why is It machine Learning Called Statistical Learning
It could Definitely Be it's Just it's Just Friends right these are Just Brands and
Stories and Marketing and We Call It different Things but in the end it's all about
Mathematical Optimization
What are your personal objectives for the next
I
Would Like to build a content machine It Kind of like a Khan Academy for ai
Slash Netflix for Education That Just Gets Really Big and gets a Lot of People to watch and Makes a Big Big Impact
Will We Solve intelligence in your lifetime um
yes we Will 100% i don't even know Why i had to think about that for a Second yes we Will we Will
What is the best resource for learning Mathematics Involved in machine Learning or deep Learning
There's a Great Deep learning book by ian good fellow definitely Check that book out
Also My Channel for sure the math of intelligence series Watch it all
Those are the two best Ones in terms of the current Market Which Jobs Would you think would Get first affected by artificial intelligence
AnyThing That is Just People don't like any Jobs That People don't like so anything like Call Center Support or
Cashiers as Well Cashiers in Terms of The Current Market Which Jobs Would you think would get i set That
133 if you were stranded on an Island for Life Which three apps Would you choose my i
Would choose twitter Because i absolutely Love twitter i would choose
Facebook Just Cuz Yeah social media and also Read It because i love Reddit how important are data structures and Algorithms for machine Learning
Will It leads me to be deep learning as well i'm a Beginner
The instructions and Algorithms are super Important for anything You do in computer science definitely If you have any interest in web development mobile Ml
Blockchain Just Get Your data structures and Algorithms in line first and then move on to the harder stuff
What's your view when alums Concern about the surge in ai he's totally right We Need to regulate it we Need some Kind of
Oversight in some Way to make sure that the Bad actors don't get
Too Much Power What'S the project you've built that you're most Proud of my YouTube Channel
What's the One resource Which Helped you get Up and running quickly in machine Learning
The machine Learning Subreddit
Do you have a circle of People You mentor personally Who Plan to grow in the field of machine Learning if yes how can someone
Join I don't i i don't have enough time for That Right Now my channel i think of Everybody As a Group
yeah
How do you see reinforcement learning impacting the future in terms of practical applications
practical applications reinforcement Learning Is One of Those
Emerging Like It'S gonna Have its de Heyday it's not Right Now maybe it's in maybe it's next year maybe it's in five Years But
in terms of the first applications i Would Say It's anything With
Cleaning Robots or Real Life Robots That Will Do some Kind of
Disaster Recovery or something That Humans don't want to do
If you could Go back in time but The same Knowledge you have Now When and where would you go i
Would Go back to new York
to columbia and i would
Have started My YouTube Channel Earlier
Is it essentially Needed When you prepare for technical Interviews to try to solve problems on your own Without looking at Solutions
Yeah for sure yeah you got It you got to work the brain right it's a discipline you got to work the brain the better
It gets at This Algorithm Stuff The Better it'S gonna be for your interviews hey Suraj you're awesome
I want to learn about machine Learning but i'm a complete Beginner could You outline a Rough Idea of What i should
look to do to Learn machine Learning
Just okay Watch My Learn Python for data science Series Then Watch My machine Learning for Hacker Series Then Watch My
Introductory X' Then Watch My Math Of intelligence Series in That order What Math Courses have you taken i
Mean On and off i've Taken some Calculus Courses Linear algebra here and there online at University in high School but in the end
You The best Way to learn This stuff is to Just a Khan Academy is a Great resource Let me Just put it very simply
Use Khan Academy for your math essentials
What do you think about the latest achievement of open a Eyes dota playing Agents oh my god that Was so badass
That Is Very cool i'm so Glad That open ai did that They are back
They are hot right Now so i'm yeah i think it's awesome
Do you think that a master's degree is required to work in big companies or is a Bachelor's and being Good enough
Being Good is
Enough For the right Companies of Course are always gonna Be companies That Really care about your credentials but the but the best companies care
about What you can output so make sure you have your github Full of Great Projects
How Many hours a Week do you work and Study, oh?
My god i work at least 80 hours a Week i am a Workaholic i Work Monday Through Saturday i take Sunday off
but It sometimes They even Work on Sunday yeah can You Juggle three balls
No
Who is Suraj Raval
The first of His Kind What is intelligence how far are we in Solving it
intelligence Is the ability to adapt and to learn and We are i
Would Say five to ten Years Away from Solving It What are Gm'S
generative Adversarial Networks are a Technique Invented By Ian Good fellow That Let You that have two Neural Networks Dual against each Other and
The Result Is being Able to generate data types that have not Been possible before
You are about to get into a fight What song comes on as your soundtrack
Fight Music By Eminem This Kind of Music use it Anyway
What languages can You Speak
Besides programming Ones english Gujarati Which is a Dialect from north India Hindi Which is the language of india
Spanish From High School i grew Up in houston texas shout-Out to houston
and i worked at a Flea Market With My dad Just selling cell Phone Accessories talks about and
I had to learn spanish so spanish hindi gujarati and I'm learning dutch we'll see how that Goes
Would You ever Go to mars of Course i would Go to mars i am Just waiting
to go to mars That's gonna Happen for sure Elon If you're watching this you know you know what the deal Is so
Checking Yeah how do i get into research Without a Masters or phd yo okay so
My Thing is i Am trying to democratize research right so i haven't really gone into that field but
We're getting to a point where anybody Will be Able to publish
Research Online I'm trying to grow the amateur research community you don't need to have a Phd to publish
Valuable Research we're gonna get to that point in terms of What the progress so far in that Field i Would Say It's?
This Still dot Pub
What do you do for a Living i make YouTube videos i make you know some Money off of Ads and Patreon
and My Deal With Udacity That i Just did
How do you think blockchain and ai could Be Implemented together oh?
My god Great question open Mind by Andrew trask Check that Out Great Example file coin is another Great Example
anytime You want to create a decentralized application
Ai can Be used to make it more
These are all technology and hey i are Just technologies to make autonomous App software what inspired you to get into ai i
Was traveling Through India and i Saw a Lot of problems That i didn't Think Would be solvable in my lifetime and i Just came
To the realization that the only Way we're going to really solve all these problems the only real chance We Have is? To solve ai
Why
It'S a tie between Kanye West's for being a Creative who is unapologetic and
Andrew Andrew Hung
I
Wake Up at 8 a.m
i drink some coffee and i either i start writing and programming and editing and sometimes Shooting if I'm Shooting a video and
I do That Until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. On and off
Suggest some Good Books you think People Should Read
Read
Ok, some good book People Should Read Read the deep learning. Book i already Said that Read
How to create a Mind by Kurzweil and One Wore this
Super intelligence By Boström Nick bostrom What Was the best Advice you've ever Been Given
Also Sapiens By
The book sapiens the best Advice i've ever Been Given Is
Every time You have a Decision It Was Actually by my hair My Hairdresser he said the
Every time You have a Decision and you think the harder choice the more Risky choice is gonna be worse it never is
So Just take the leap and do the Riskier Thing What are the coolest libraries you use often
tensorflow and also Pi torch and i have Been Really getting into decentralized applications
So i would Say truffle and open Zeppelin and aetherium how can Deep learning Help in solving Unanswered questions in biomedicine
Yeah I Mean You could use generative Models to generate New types of medicine you could use discriminative model to detect diseases that Exist
so both of Those Things
What do you think about engines New course on deep Learning i
Think it's dope i i support anything that he does we were trying to democratize ai so definitely Check it out
What do you think about the future of decentralized applications
The time is now it's happening and
Do you think machine learning and Deep Learning are Just
Overhyped By Tech Giants can It Really solve General and super ai in the future or is another ai Winter coming?
Statistically Speaking Yes another ai Winter is coming we don't Know how long it's gonna be deep learning could Be the path Forward we don't
Know personally i think one-shot learning is going to be
The The field That is going to be the next step after deep learning where we Need less data for the same results but it's
A very exciting space and as long As We Have attention and we Have hard Hard Working People into space it's gonna Keep it's gonna
Keep Up accelerating Cool well Thanks for answering all My questions and Showing me around awesome Thanks dan yeah yeah
