MACC 2021 Why do Machine Learning Projects Fail Slides

It was great to return to the Midwest Architecture Community Collaboration Conference this year even if it was virtual.  This talk has been something I’ve building towards for years, and attempts to capture some of the wisdom I have acquired in the last few years in machine learning space.  ML project failures is the hidden secret nobody wants to talk about in our industry.  I hope everyone enjoyed hearing this talk as my as I enjoyed giving it!

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Azure Notebooks Talk Coming Up

My first talk of the year will focus on Azure Notebooks, which is a great implementation of Jupyter in the cloud. I’ll show how to effectively use it and how it is useful for Developers and Data Scientists. The Milwaukee date is January 30th, click here to sign up!  Madison and Minneapolis dates coming soon!

Create a Batch AI instance with a file share from the Azure CLI

While working with the Azure Batch AI public preview I was unable to use the portal to create a Batch AI instance that was connected to a file share.  I suspect this is just a bug in the preview, but I wanted to share exactly how I did it so others don’t have to figure this out themselves.

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