Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 2 Episode 1

 25.09.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, September 25, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Prime Insight, 3 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Prime Insight which offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Romain Haimez and Matthieu Pirouelle. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine. Thibault Bourgeron, Quantitative Researcher at Shell Street Labs - Dynamic Time Warping and Support Vector Machines for Time Structured Data

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 12

 17.07.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, July 17, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Amazon AWS Hong Kong, Tower 535, aws pop-up loft 26/F, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Amazon AWS Hong Kong hosted the meetup at their Causeway Bay office (Tower 535, pop-up loft 26/F). Many thanks to them! And especially, thanks to Sze Lok Chan. Programme: Alex Lau on WGAN-GP Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is notorious for being hard to train.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 11

 15.06.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, June 15, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? At the Hive Kennedy Town, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Clover Health, a data-driven health insurance startup based out of San Francisco. Clover Health has opened an office in Hong Kong, and is currently hiring Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing engineers. Clover Health offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Cindy Wong for helping organizing.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 10

 15.05.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, May 15, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Prime Insight, 3 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Prime Insight which offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Romain Haimez and Matthieu Pirouelle. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine. Cheney Cheng from Apoidea.ai - Tipping point of Natural Language Processing and its implication

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 9

 17.04.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? TusParkHK Innovation Hub, 118 Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong This meetup was hosted by TusParkHK Innovation Hub. A few pictures taken at their Kwun Tong location. Thanks to Gary Ng and his deepteck community for the lead. Programme: Note that, as usual, errors and approximations in the summaries below are mine. Especially this time as my understanding of biology is unfortunately rather low.

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Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 1 Episode 8

 12.03.2019 -  Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Tuesday, March 12, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where? Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters), ICBC Tower, 18/F, 3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong This meetup was sponsored by Refinitiv (Thomson Reuters) which offered the location, drinks and snacks. Thanks to them, and in particular to Alan Tam. Programme: Tan Li - Machine-Learning-based Market Crash Early Indicator and How TDA Can Boost the Performance at High Cut-offs

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