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Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393485
Pages 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Giuseppe Ciaburro Giuseppe Ciaburro
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Giuseppe Ciaburro holds a PhD and two master's degrees. He works at the Built Environment Control Laboratory - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". He has over 25 years of work experience in programming, first in the field of combustion and then in acoustics and noise control. His core programming knowledge is in MATLAB, Python and R. As an expert in AI applications to acoustics and noise control problems, Giuseppe has wide experience in researching and teaching. He has several publications to his credit: monographs, scientific journals, and thematic conferences. He was recently included in the world's top 2% scientists list by Stanford University (2022).
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V Kishore Ayyadevara V Kishore Ayyadevara
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V Kishore Ayyadevara leads a team focused on using AI to solve problems in the healthcare space. He has 10 years' experience in data science, solving problems to improve customer experience in leading technology companies. In his current role, he is responsible for developing a variety of cutting edge analytical solutions that have an impact at scale while building strong technical teams. Prior to this, Kishore authored three books — Pro Machine Learning Algorithms, Hands-on Machine Learning with Google Cloud Platform, and SciPy Recipes. Kishore is an active learner with keen interest in identifying problems that can be solved using data, simplifying the complexity and in transferring techniques across domains to achieve quantifiable results.
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Alexis Perrier Alexis Perrier
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Alexis Perrier is a data science consultant with experience in signal processing and stochastic algorithms. He holds a master's in mathematics from Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI and a PhD in signal processing from Tlcom ParisTech. He is actively involved in the DC data science community. He is also an avid book lover and proud owner of a real chalk blackboard, where he regularly shares his fascination of mathematical equations with his kids.
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing the Google Cloud Platform 2. Google Compute Engine 3. Google Cloud Storage 4. Querying Your Data with BigQuery 5. Transforming Your Data 6. Essential Machine Learning 7. Google Machine Learning APIs 8. Creating ML Applications with Firebase 9. Neural Networks with TensorFlow and Keras 10. Evaluating Results with TensorBoard 11. Optimizing the Model through Hyperparameter Tuning 12. Preventing Overfitting with Regularization 13. Beyond Feedforward Networks – CNN and RNN 14. Time Series with LSTMs 15. Reinforcement Learning 16. Generative Neural Networks 17. Chatbots

Summary

In this chapter, we discovered the amazing world of chatbots. Chatbots are robots, that interact with users through a chat and are able to assist them by carrying out extremely limited tasks: providing information on a current account, buying a ticket, receiving news about the weather, and so forth.

To begin with, we took a look at the fundamentals of the topic, starting with the history of chatbots in the 1950s, with the efforts of Alan Turing and various subsequent implementations of chatbots that perfected the basic concepts. Eliza, Parry, Jabberwacky, Dr. Sbaitso, ALICE, SmarterChild, and IBM Watson are the most important examples. As time passed and technology evolved, more and more sophisticated AI methods were created.

After introducing the basic concepts, we focused on the design techniques of chatbots and then moved on to analyze the architecture of a chatbot...

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Giuseppe Ciaburro holds a PhD and two master's degrees. He works at the Built Environment Control Laboratory - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". He has over 25 years of work experience in programming, first in the field of combustion and then in acoustics and noise control. His core programming knowledge is in MATLAB, Python and R. As an expert in AI applications to acoustics and noise control problems, Giuseppe has wide experience in researching and teaching. He has several publications to his credit: monographs, scientific journals, and thematic conferences. He was recently included in the world's top 2% scientists list by Stanford University (2022).
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V Kishore Ayyadevara leads a team focused on using AI to solve problems in the healthcare space. He has 10 years' experience in data science, solving problems to improve customer experience in leading technology companies. In his current role, he is responsible for developing a variety of cutting edge analytical solutions that have an impact at scale while building strong technical teams. Prior to this, Kishore authored three books — Pro Machine Learning Algorithms, Hands-on Machine Learning with Google Cloud Platform, and SciPy Recipes. Kishore is an active learner with keen interest in identifying problems that can be solved using data, simplifying the complexity and in transferring techniques across domains to achieve quantifiable results.
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Alexis Perrier is a data science consultant with experience in signal processing and stochastic algorithms. He holds a master's in mathematics from Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI and a PhD in signal processing from Tlcom ParisTech. He is actively involved in the DC data science community. He is also an avid book lover and proud owner of a real chalk blackboard, where he regularly shares his fascination of mathematical equations with his kids.
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