Gradient Dissent – A Machine Learning Podcast

Meet your host – Lukas Biewald, CEO of W&B.
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In 2009, Lukas founded Figure Eight/CrowdFlower. Over the past 10 years Lukas has dedicated his career optimizing ML workflows and teaching ML practitioners, making machine learning more accessible to all.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how industry leaders are using deep learning in the real world.

While building experiment tracking tools, we’ve had the opportunity to learn about how different teams are building and deploying models. In this new podcast, we share some of the insights and stories we’ve heard along the way.

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Episodes

Daphne Koller, CEO of insitro, on digital biology and the next epoch of science

From teaching at Stanford to co-founding Coursera, insitro, and Engageli, Daphne Koller reflects on the importance of education, giving back, and cross-functional research.

February 18, 2021

The not-so-secret secret behind building successful open source projects with Ludwig's Piero Molino

Piero shares the story of how Ludwig was created, as well as the ins and outs of how Ludwig works and the future of machine learning with no code.

February 11, 2021

Conducting fundamental machine learning research as a non-profit with MLC's founder Rosanne Liu

How Rosanne is working to democratize AI research and improve diversity and fairness in the field through starting a non-profit after being a founding member of Uber AI Labs, doing lots of amazing research, and publishing papers at top conferences.

February 4, 2021

Primer CEO Sean Gourley on NLP, national defense, and establishing ground truth

Sean and Lukas discuss NLP, working with vast amounts of information, and how crucially it relates to national defense.

January 28, 2021

Peter Wang on Anaconda, Python and Scientific Computing

Peter Wang talks about his journey of being the CEO of and co-founding Anaconda, his perspective on the Python programming language, and its use for scientific computing.

January 21, 2021

Chris Anderson on Robocars, Drones and WIRED Magazine

Chris shares his journey starting from playing in R.E.M, becoming interested physics to leading WIRED Magazine for 11 years. His robot fascination lead to starting a company that manufactures drones, and creating a community democratizing self-driving cars.

January 14, 2021

Streamlit's CEO Adrien Treuille on building blazingly fast and interactive tools people love

Adrien shares his journey from making games that advance science (Eterna, Foldit) to creating a Streamlit, an open-source app framework enabling ML/Data practitioners to easily build powerful and interactive apps in a few hours

December 4, 2020

Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research – singularity is in the eye of the beholder

We're thrilled to have Peter Norvig join us to talk about the evolution of deep learning, his industry-defining book, his work at Google, and what he thinks the future holds for machine learning research.

November 20, 2020

Ray's co-creator Robert Nishihara on the state of distributed computing in Machine Learning

The story of Ray and what lead Robert to go from reinforcement learning researcher to creating open-source tools for machine learning and beyond

November 13, 2020

Building industrial strength NLP pipelines with Ines and Sophie of Explosion.AI

Sophie and Ines walk us through how the new spaCy library helps build end to end SOTA natural language processing workflows.

October 30, 2020