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Jensen Huang — NVIDIA's CEO on the Next Generation of AI and MLOps
Jensen shares the story of NVIDIA and deep learning and talks about his views on the future of machine learning and machine learning development.
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2022-02-22
Upgrading Your Health: Navigating AIs Future In Healthcare with John Halamka of Mayo Clinic Platform
In the newest episode of Gradient Dissent, we explore the intersecting worlds of AI and healthcare with John Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform.
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2024-03-04
AI's Future: Investment & Impact with Sarah Guo and Elad Gill
Explore the Future of Investment & Impact in AI with Gradient Dissent Host Lukas Biewald and Guests Elad Gill and Sarah Guo of the No Priors podcast.
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2024-01-18
Spatial Data and AI: The Next Frontier in Technological Innovation with Paul Copplestone
Explore the journey of Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone on Gradient Dissent Business Podcast, discussing AI, database challenges, and spatial data innovations with hosts Lavanya Shukla and Caryn Marooney.
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2023-12-21
Bridging AI & Science: The Impact of Machine Learning on Material Innovation with Joe Spisak of Meta
In the latest episode of Gradient Dissent, we hear from Joseph Spisak, Product Director, Generative AI @Meta, to explore the boundless impacts of AI and its expansive role in reshaping various sectors.
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2023-12-07
Unlocking the Power of Language Models in Enterprise: A Deep Dive with Chris Van Pelt
In the premiere episode of Gradient Dissent Business, we're joined by Weights & Biases co-founder Chris Van Pelt for a deep dive into the world of large language models like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
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2023-11-20
Providing Greater Access to LLMs with Brandon Duderstadt, Co-Founder and CEO of Nomic AI
Dive into the world of AI with Brandon Houghton, founder of Nomic AI, as he discusses the intricacies of language models, the role of fine-tuning, the concept of prompt engineering, and the importance of AI policy on this enlightening episode of Gradient Dissent.
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2023-07-27
Exploring PyTorch and Open-Source Communities: Interview with Soumith Chintala
Discover PyTorch's journey in an episode with Soumith Chintala, its Co-Creator and Meta's VP/Fellow. Learn about TensorFlow's impact, community-guided innovation, and the open vs. closed-source debate.
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2023-07-13
Andrew Feldman: Advanced AI Accelerators and Processors
Revolutionizing AI Processing: Unveiling Cerebras Systems' CEO Andrew Feldman's Insights on Large Chips, Optimal Machines, and Future-proof Chip Design.
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2023-06-22
Stella Biderman: How EleutherAI Trains and Releases LLMs
On this episode of Gradient Dissent, we’re joined by Stella Biderman, Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton and Executive Director at ElutherAI. Stella and Lukas discuss EleutherAI's origin and future, LLM similarities and differences, choosing models, reinforcement learning, pre-training/fine-tuning, GPU selection, differences from other LLM companies, interpretability, memorization importance, and public access.
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2023-05-12
Aidan Gomez - Scaling LLMs and Accelerating Adoption
On this episode of Gradient Dissent, we’re joined by Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO at Cohere. Cohere develops and releases a range of innovative AI-powered tools and solutions for a variety of NLP use cases.
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2023-04-19
Jonathan Frankle: Neural Network Pruning and Training
Jonathan Frankle and Lukas Biewald discuss neural network pruning and training, the "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" and much more on this episode of Gradient Dissent.
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2023-04-10
Shreya Shankar — Operationalizing Machine Learning
Shreya explains the high-level findings of "Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study", an interview study on deploying and maintaining ML pipelines in production.
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2023-03-02
Sarah Catanzaro — Remembering the Lessons of the Last AI Renaissance
Sarah discusses the lessons learned from the "AI renaissance" of the mid 2010s and shares her thoughts on machine learning from her perspective as an investor.
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2023-01-18
Cristóbal Valenzuela — The Next Generation of Content Creation and AI
Cris gives a demo of Runway, a new video editing platform that uses machine learning to make content creation easier, and discusses the future of computation and creativity.
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2023-01-11
Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion
Jeremy explains diffusion, shares his thoughts on large models, revisits the debate between Python and Julia, and talks about his scientific advocacy during the early days of COVID-19.
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2022-12-29
Jerome Pesenti — Large Language Models, PyTorch, and Meta
Jerome discusses the current advances around large language models and shares some stories about his time as VP of AI at Meta, including leading the team that developed PyTorch.
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2022-12-19
D. Sculley — Technical Debt, Trade-offs, and Kaggle
D. dives into some of the potential pitfalls of model development and explains the roles that Kaggle plays in the machine learning community.
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2022-11-29
Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next
Emad shares the story and mission behind Stability AI, a startup and network of decentralized developer communities building open AI tools.
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2022-11-10
Peter & Boris — Fine-tuning OpenAI's GPT-3
Peter and Boris dive into the world of GPT-3: how people are applying OpenAI's flagship language model, why fine-tuning GPT-3 improves performance, and the development of OpenAI's GPT-3 API.description
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2022-02-08
Jehan Wickramasuriya — AI in High-Stress Scenarios
Jehan discusses applications for AI in public safety and enterprise security
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2022-10-05
Will Falcon — Making Lightning the Apple of ML
Will explores Lightning's journey from undergrad project to Series B startup
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2022-09-13
Aaron Colak — ML and NLP in Experience Management
Aaron explains how Qualtrics uses machine learning for the enrichment of experience management, discusses the strength and speed of the current NLP ecosystem, and shares tips and tricks for organizing effective ML projects and teams
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2022-08-24
Jordan Fisher — Skipping the Line with Autonomous Checkout
Jordan explains how Standard AI uses machine learning to track products and customers in challenging retail environments
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2022-07-27
Drago Anguelov — Robustness, Safety, and Scalability at Waymo
Drago discusses current trends in autonomous driving technology, the challenges of simulation and scalability, and why it's important to find rare examples.
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2022-07-11
James Cham — Investing in the Intersection of Business and Technology
James explains what investing in "the future of work" means, the importance of demystifying ML and making it more accessible, and how new technologies create new business models.
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2022-07-07
Tristan Handy — The Work Behind the Data Work
Tristan explains the rise of the modern data stack, how dbt makes data transformation easier, and why SQL is still so popular.
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2022-06-02
Johannes Otterbach — Unlocking ML for Traditional Companies
Johannes talks about quantum computing, the state of the ML tools ecosystem today, and the challenges of developing and deploying models for customers.
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2022-05-02
Mircea Neagovici — Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and ML
Mircea explains how machine learning unlocks the next level of potential for robotic process automation (RPA) and how ML teams differ from engineering teams.
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2022-04-11
Pieter Abbeel — Robotics, Startups, and Robotics Startups
Pieter talks about the state of affairs and challenges of robotics in 2021, and shares the stories behind founding Gradescope and Covariant.
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2021-09-23
Peter Welinder — Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics
Peter Welinder, Robotics lead at OpenAI talks about his love of robotics, the early days of reinforcement learning, and the evolution of the robot hand.
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2021-05-05
Stephan Fabel — Efficient Supercomputing with NVIDIA's Base Command Platform
Stephan talks about Base Command Platform, NVIDIA's software platform for its DGX SuperPOD infrastructure.
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2021-10-14
Ion Stoica — Spark, Ray, and Enterprise Open Source
Ion shares the stories behind developing the distributed computing frameworks Spark and Ray, and commercializing them into Databricks and Anyscale.
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2022-01-06
Chris Padwick — Smart Machines for More Sustainable Farming
Chris explains how Blue River Technology is building smart robots for more sustainable farming by identifying crops and weeds and only spraying the weeds with herbicide.
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2021-12-08
Kathryn Hume — Financial Models, ML, and 17th-Century Philosophy
Kathryn explains how the Royal Bank of Canada is using machine learning, and explores what Descartes and Newton might have thought about ML.
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2021-11-30
Josh Bloom — The Link Between Astronomy and ML
Josh explains how astronomy and machine learning have informed each other, their current limitations, and where their intersection goes from here.
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2021-07-14
Xavier Amatriain — Building AI-powered Primary Care
Xavier shares his experience deploying healthcare models, augmenting primary care with AI, the challenges of "ground truth" in medicine, and robustness in ML.
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2021-06-25
Spence Green — Enterprise-scale Machine Translation
Spence shares his experience creating a product around human-in-the-loop machine translation, and explains how machine translation has evolved over the years.
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2021-06-07
Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response
Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response.
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2021-07-08
Amelia & Filip — How Pandora Deploys ML Models into Production
Amelia and Filip give insights into the recommender systems powering Pandora, from developing models to balancing effectiveness and efficiency in production.
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2021-07-01
Luis Ceze — Accelerating Machine Learning Systems
From Apache TVM to OctoML, Luis gives direct insight into the world of ML hardware optimization, and where systems optimization is heading.
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2021-06-24
Matthew Davis — Bringing Genetic Insights to Everyone
Matthew explains how combining machine learning and computational biology can provide mainstream medicine with better diagnostics and insights.
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2021-06-17
Clément Delangue — The Power of the Open Source Community
Clem explains the virtuous cycles behind the creation and success of Hugging Face, and shares his thoughts on where NLP is heading.
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2021-06-10
Wojciech Zaremba — What Could Make AI Conscious?
Wojciech joins us to talk the principles behind OpenAI, the Fermi paradox, and the future stages of developments in AGI.
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2021-06-03
Phil Brown — How IPUs are Advancing Machine Intelligence
Phil shares some of the approaches, like sparsity and low precision, behind the breakthrough performance of Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs).
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2021-05-27
Alyssa Simpson Rochwerger — Responsible ML in the Real World
From working on COVID-19 vaccine rollout to writing a book on responsible ML, Alyssa shares her thoughts on meaningful projects and the importance of teamwork.
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2021-05-20
Sean Taylor — Business Decision Problems
Sean joins us to chat about ML models and tools at Lyft Rideshare Labs, Python vs R, time series forecasting with Prophet, and election forecasting.
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2021-05-13
Polly Fordyce — Microfluidic Platforms and Machine Learning
Polly explains how microfluidics allow bioengineering researchers to create high throughput data, and shares her experiences with biology and machine learning.
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2021-04-29
Adrien Gaidon — Advancing ML Research in Autonomous Vehicles
Adrien shares his approach to building teams and taking state-of-the-art research from conception to production at Toyota Research Institute.
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2021-04-22
Nimrod Shabtay — Deployment and Monitoring at Nanit
A look at how Nimrod and the team at Nanit are building smart baby monitor systems, from data collection to model deployment and production monitoring.
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2021-04-16
Chris Mattmann — ML Applications on Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Chris shares some of the incredible work and innovations behind deep space exploration at NASA JPL and reflects on the past, present, and future of machine learning.
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2021-04-13
Vladlen Koltun — The Power of Simulation and Abstraction
From legged locomotion to drones and autonomous driving, Vladlen explains how simulation and abstraction help us understand embodied intelligence.
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2021-04-13
Dominik Moritz — Building Intuitive Data Visualization Tools
Dominik shares the story and principles behind Vega and Vega-Lite, and explains how visualization and machine learning help each other.
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2021-04-13
Cade Metz — The Stories Behind the Rise of AI
How Cade got access to the stories behind some of the biggest advancements in AI, and the dynamic playing out between leaders at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook.
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2021-04-13
Dave Selinger — AI and the Next Generation of Security Systems
Learn why traditional home security systems tend to fail and how Dave’s love of tinkering and deep learning are helping him and the team at Deep Sentinel avoid those same pitfalls. He also discusses the importance of combatting racial bias by designing race-agnostic systems and what their approach is to solving that problem.
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2021-04-13
Tim & Heinrich — Democraticizing Reinforcement Learning Research
Since reinforcement learning requires hefty compute resources, it can be tough to keep up without a serious budget of your own. Find out how the team at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) is looking to increase access and level the playing field with the help of NetHack, an archaic rogue-like video game from the late 80s.
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2021-04-13
Daphne Koller — 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.
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2021-04-16
Piero Molino — The Secret Behind Building Successful Open Source Projects
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.
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2021-04-16
Rosanne Liu — Conducting Fundamental ML Research as a Nonprofit
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.
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2021-04-16
Sean Gourley — 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.
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2021-04-16
Peter Wang — Anaconda, Python, and Scientific Computing
Peter Wang talks about his journey of being the CEO of and co-founding Anaconda, his perspective on Python, and its use for scientific computing.
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2021-04-16
Chris Anderson — 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.
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2021-04-16
Adrien Treuille — Building Blazingly Fast Tools That 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
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2021-04-16
Peter Norvig – Singularity Is in the Eye of the Beholder
We're thrilled to have Peter Norvig who 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.
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2021-04-16
Robert Nishihara — The State of Distributed Computing in ML
The story of Ray and what lead Robert to go from reinforcement learning researcher to creating open-source tools for machine learning and beyond.
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2021-04-16
Ines & Sofie — Building Industrial-Strength NLP Pipelines
Sofie and Ines walk us through how the new spaCy library helps build end to end SOTA natural language processing workflows.
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2021-04-20
Daeil Kim — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Synthetic Data
Supercharging computer vision model performance by generating years of training data in minutes
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2021-04-21
Joaquin Candela — Definitions of Fairness
Joaquin chats about scaling and democratizing AI at Facebook, while understanding fairness and algorithmic bias.
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2021-04-21
Richard Socher — The Challenges of Making ML Work in the Real World
Richard Socher, ex-Chief Scientist at Salesforce, joins us to talk about The AI Economist, NLP protein generation and biggest challenge in making ML work in the real world.
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2021-04-22
Zack Chase Lipton — The Medical Machine Learning Landscape
Hear how Zack went from being a musician to professor, where medical applications of Machine Learning are developing, and the challenges of counteracting bias in real world applications.
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2021-04-22
Anthony Goldbloom — How to Win Kaggle Competitions
and which jobs we should be worried about losing to AI in the next few decades.
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2021-04-22
Suzana Ilić — Cultivating Machine Learning Communities
The story of Machine Learning Tokyo, a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratizing Machine Learning
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2021-04-23
Jeremy Howard — The Story of fast.ai and Why Python Is Not the Future of ML
Jeremy shares his experiences in learning, teaching, developing, and making deep learning more accessible.
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2021-04-23
Anantha Kancherla — Building Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles
Anantha and Lukas dive into the challenges of building deep learning models for self driving cars and deploying them into production.
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2021-04-23
Bharath Ramsundar — Deep Learning for Molecules and Medicine Discovery
Lukas and Bharath discuss how ML is being used in the medical and biology research fields
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2021-04-26
Chip Huyen — ML Research and Production Pipelines
Chip has worked on ML research at Snorkel, NVIDIA, Netflix and Primer. She joins us to shares the biggest challenges of moving machine learning pipelines from research to production.
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2021-04-27
Peter Skomoroch — Product Management for AI
Machine Learning Executive & Entrepreneur, Peter Skomoroch shares his experience building and running successful data science and machine learning teams
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2021-04-28
Josh Tobin — Productionizing ML Models
Josh Tobin, a former researcher at OpenAI and creator of Full Stack Deep Learning talks about professionalizing ML workflows for the real world, his work with the Robotics team and FSDL.
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2021-04-29
Miles Brundage — Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Miles Brundage joins us to talk about his work developing methods for rigorous analysis of AI development scenarios and appropriate policy responses at OpenAI.
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2021-04-29
Hamel Husain — Building Machine Learning Tools
Hamel Husain, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Github talks about Github Actions, the CodeSearchNet challenge and the tools they're building to advance progress in AI
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2021-05-05
Vicki Boykis — Machine Learning Across Industries
As a senior consultant in machine learning, Vicki shares her experiences working with many different companies
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2021-05-05
Angela & Danielle — Designing ML Models for Millions of Consumer Robots
Learn how Angela and Danielle make machine learning work at scale at iRobot
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2021-04-30
Jack Clark — Building Trustworthy AI Systems
Machine learning policy, ethics, and the responsibilities of practitioners and researchers
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2021-05-04
Rachael Tatman — Conversational AI and Linguistics
Learn about the challenges involved in building and deploying conversational models, as well as what it's like to work at Kaggle
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2021-05-05
Nicolas Koumchatzky — Machine Learning in Production for Self-Driving Cars
Director of AI infrastructure at NVIDIA, Nicolas is responsible for MagLev, the production-grade ML platform
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2021-05-04
Brandon Rohrer — Machine Learning in Production for Robots
Principal Data Scientist at iRobot, Brandon has an incredibly popular ML course at e2eML
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2021-05-05
Sean and Greg — Biology and ML for Drug Discovery
Sean and Greg talk about the challenges of combining two highly specialized fields like biology and ML, and how they think about building cross-functional teams.description
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2021-11-24
Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey
The three Weights & Biases co-founders (Chris, Shawn, and Lukas) share how the company got started, reflect on the highs and lows, and give advice to first-time entrepreneurs.
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2021-11-03
Pete Warden — Practical Applications of TinyML
Pete discusses machine learning for embedded devices, from running neural nets on a Raspberry Pi to wake words and industrial monitoring.
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2021-10-05
Emily M. Bender — Language Models and Linguistics
Emily dives into the problems with bigger and bigger language models, the difference between form and meaning, the limits of benchmarks, and more.
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2021-07-27
Chris Albon — ML Models and Infrastructure at Wikimedia
Chris talks about machine learning at Wikimedia, from which models they're currently running to where their deployment infrastructure is heading.
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2021-08-26
Jeff Hammerbacher — From data science to biomedicine
Jeff talks about building Facebook's early data team, founding Cloudera, and transitioning into biomedicine with Hammer Lab and Related Sciences.
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2021-07-19