Great series, Wayne! Looking forward to reading all of them and sharing them.

It would be great to hear your perspective on both the algorithms / methodologies as well domain specific feature representation that are required, for instance, in object recognition you can't use the raw image as input, in natural language processing you can't just present the bytestream to the tools, in speech-to-text you can't just put the waveform to the machine. This step of massging the input from raw low level data to higher level conceptual entities that are more meaningful is crucial in all ML applications.

regards, Daymond