NYAI 22: Modular Solutions to Complex Problems

From Many, One | Modular Solutions to Complex Problems

This event is focused on AI and Modular Solutions to Complex Problems. We heard from Dr. Cole Ingraham (Music Systems Architect at Amper Music) who gave a talk titled: “From Many, One. Modular Solutions to Complex Problems”, followed by a Panel Discussion.

More often than not, the problem you want to solve is too large to effectively tackle all in one go. What may seem like a single task is frequently a collection of smaller components. AI tends to be portrayed as providing end to end solutions, however it is important to recognize that, as with most other approaches, modular design typically yields better results and promote the reuse of work.

Software engineering for at least the last decade or so has really emphasized composability, separation of concerns, and generally making components which are dedicated to a specific task that can be pieced together to create larger systems. When it comes to machine learning, we often hear about “the curse of dimensionality,” as the number of features increases, so does the computational load when dealing with complex data. Similarly to regular software design, in many solutions, it can be effective to split ML problems into atomic pieces in order to reduce the dimensionality of the data, improve training and debugging, and allow for some components to be reused elsewhere.

About the Speaker

Originally from the San Francisco bay area in California, American composer and multimedia artist Cole D. Ingraham holds a B.M. in Music Composition from the University of the Pacific, an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and a D.M.A. in Music Composition from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After finishing his doctorate, he lived in Shanghai, China teaching music composition, theory, technology, and flute at FaceArt Institute of Music.

Cole currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as the Music Systems Architect at Amper Music. He is an active performer, improviser, creative programmer, both as a soloist and a collaborator. His aesthetic involves experimentalism, noise, drone, programming as performance, and all things abstract.

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Panel Moderator

Greg Harris, Technical Advisor, NYAI

Greg is an entrepreneur and innovator working across AI and Blockchain. He is currently co-founder of two stealth stage startups, one an AI-powered cryptocurrency quant fund, the other a service robots project incorporating a dividend token financing layer. He also advises CryZen, a cryptocurrency trading platform bringing AI-learned price predictions and professional grade infrastructure

to a wider user base. In his free time, he enjoys books on molecular biology and fiction exploring the social implications of tech trends, as well as the Civilization 6: Rise and Fall expansion pack, where he likes playing as Seondeok (Korea) because of the campus district bonus.

Dr. Cole Ingraham (Music Systems Architect, Amper Music)

Marc Hadfield (Founder, Vital.AI)

Dr. Ariel Elbaz (CXO, Clay Sciences)

Dillon Erb (CEO, Paperspace)

Dillon Erb, CEO, Papersource

Dillon Erb is CEO and co-founder of Paperspace (www.paperspace.com), a leading provider of cloud solutions for ML and AI. Prior to Paperspace Dillon worked on projects ranging from robotic fabrication to HPC applications for topology optimization. Today, Dillon spends his time working to define cloud machine learning pipelines and accelerating the adoption of AI by developers.