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Feature Stores for Accelerating AI Development - #432

Feature Stores for Accelerating AI Development - #432

In this special episode of the podcast, we're joined by Kevin Stumpf, Co-Founder and CTO of Tecton, Willem Pienaar, an engineering lead at Gojek and founder of the Feast Project, and Maxime Beauchemin, Founder & CEO of Preset, for a discussion on Feature Stores for Accelerating AI Development. In this panel…

56 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

A casual conversation concerning causal inference

A casual conversation concerning causal inference

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, cohost of the Casual Inference Podcast and a professor at Wake Forest University, joins Daniel and Chris for a deep dive into causal inference. Referring to current events (e.g. misreporting of COVID-19 data in Georgia) as examples, they explore how we interact with, analyze, trust, and…

51 MinutesPractical AI

Common Sense as an Algorithmic Framework with Dileep George - #430

Common Sense as an Algorithmic Framework with Dileep George - #430

Today we’re joined by Dileep George, Founder and the CTO of Vicarious. Dileep, who was also a co-founder of Numenta, works at the intersection of AI research and neuroscience, and famously pioneered the hierarchical temporal memory. In our conversation, we explore the importance of mimicking the brain when looking to…

48 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Scaling Enterprise ML in 2020: Still Hard! with Sushil Thomas - #429

Scaling Enterprise ML in 2020: Still Hard! with Sushil Thomas - #429

Today we’re joined by Sushil Thomas, VP of Engineering for Machine Learning at Cloudera. Over the summer, I had the pleasure of hosting Sushil and a handful of business leaders across industries at the Cloudera Virtual Roundtable. In this conversation with Sushil, we recap the roundtable, exploring some of the topics…

46 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Building a deep learning workstation

Building a deep learning workstation

What’s it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what’s the best way to utilize it? Chris and Daniel dig into questions today as they talk about Daniel’s recent workstation build. He built a workstation for his NLP and…

49 MinutesPractical AI

Enabling Clinical Automation: From Research to Deployment with Devin Singh - #428

Enabling Clinical Automation: From Research to Deployment with Devin Singh - #428

Today we’re joined by Devin Singh, a Physician Lead for Clinical Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, and Founder and CEO of HeroAI. In our conversation with Devin, we discuss some of the interesting ways that Devin is…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Pixels to Concepts with Backpropagation w/ Roland Memisevic - #427

Pixels to Concepts with Backpropagation w/ Roland Memisevic - #427

Today we’re joined by Roland Memisevic, return podcast guest and Co-Founder & CEO of Twenty Billion Neurons. We last spoke to Roland in 2018, and just earlier this year TwentyBN made a sharp pivot to a surprising use case, a companion app called Fitness Ally, an interactive, personalized fitness coach on your phone.…

35 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Fighting Global Health Disparities with AI w/ Jon Wang - #426

Fighting Global Health Disparities with AI w/ Jon Wang - #426

Today we’re joined by Jon Wang, a medical student at UCSF, and former Gates Scholar and AI researcher at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In our conversation with Jon, we explore a few of the different ways he’s attacking various public health issues, including improving the electronic health records system…

36 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Killer developer tools for machine learning

Killer developer tools for machine learning

Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered while working as an AI intern at OpenAI. He also shares his vision for the future of machine learning tooling and where he…

51 MinutesPractical AI

Accessibility and Computer Vision - #425

Accessibility and Computer Vision - #425

Digital imagery is pervasive today. More than a billion images per day are produced and uploaded to social media sites, with many more embedded within websites, apps, digital documents, and eBooks. Engaging with digital imagery has become fundamental to participating in contemporary society, including education, the…

1h 01mThe TWIML AI Podcast

NLP for Equity Investing with Frank Zhao - #424

NLP for Equity Investing with Frank Zhao - #424

Today we’re joined by Frank Zhao, Senior Director of Quantamental Research at S&P Global Market Intelligence. In our conversation with Frank, we explore how he came to work at the intersection of ML and finance, and how he navigates the relationship between data science and domain expertise. We also discuss the rise…

44 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast