LD4 Discovery Affinity Group: 5/5/26, 9 AM PT/12 PM ET: Introduction to ML concepts, continuing LD/AI/Discovery series

[Huda Khan]

Hi all!

Thanks to all of you who attended our kickoff session for the AI, LD, and Discovery series last month.  The recording for that session is available here at this link.  The slides for this series are available at this link. 

Our upcoming session on May 5^th will delve into some machine learning basics such as language models (in general), vectors, and embeddings.  

As before, we are providing some readings or video links in advance.  Folks do not have to view this information in advance but are encouraged to do so. 

As a reminder, this is an informal discussion group so please feel free to bring your own references, contributions and questions.  Our “lesson plan” schedule is flexible and our participants will help us set the pace.  

The agenda/notes document is here with the Zoom link information:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/19e6AyJoX1GJybV5UeG2o0RJTm_WEf0bHksYlyuFqS6o/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gaa68eihdnte.  Our readings for next week (or perhaps the next two sessions) include the following:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_uwKZIAeM0&t=1s (Intro to machine learning - 2 minutes)

• Vector basics: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-science/vectors-for-ml/ (Short blog post, just the beginning half is sufficient for our next session)

• The book chapter https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/5.pdf OR related slides https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/slides/vector25aug.pdf. The slides may be quicker to review

Thank you all!

Astrid and Huda

LD4 Discovery Affinity Group co-chairs