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FaciesNet & Machine Learning Applications in Energy with Mohamed Sidahmed - #333

FaciesNet & Machine Learning Applications in Energy with Mohamed Sidahmed - #333

Today we close out our 2019 NeurIPS series with Mohamed Sidahmed, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence R&D Manager at Shell. In our conversation, we discuss two papers Mohamed and his team submitted to the conference this year, Accelerating Least Squares Imaging Using Deep Learning Techniques, and FaciesNet…

40 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Machine Learning: A New Approach to Drug Discovery with Daphne Koller - #332

Machine Learning: A New Approach to Drug Discovery with Daphne Koller - #332

Today we’re joined by Daphne Koller, co-Founder and former co-CEO of Coursera and Founder and CEO of Insitro. In our conversation, discuss the current landscape of pharmaceutical drugs and drug discovery, including the current pricing of drugs, and an overview of Insitro’s goal of using ML as a “compass” in drug…

43 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Sensory Prediction Error Signals in the Neocortex with Blake Richards - #331

Sensory Prediction Error Signals in the Neocortex with Blake Richards - #331

Today we continue our 2019 NeurIPS coverage, this time around joined by Blake Richards, Assistant Professor at McGill University and a Core Faculty Member at Mila. Blake was an invited speaker at the Neuro-AI Workshop, and presented his research on “Sensory Prediction Error Signals in the Neocortex.” In our…

40 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

How to Know with Celeste Kidd - #330

How to Know with Celeste Kidd - #330

Today we’re joined by Celeste Kidd, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, to discuss her invited talk “How to Know” which details her lab’s research about the core cognitive systems people use to guide their learning about the world. We explore why people are curious about some things but not others, and how past…

53 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

AI for search at Etsy

AI for search at Etsy

We have all used web and product search technologies for quite some time, but how do they actually work and how is AI impacting search? Andrew Stanton from Etsy joins us to dive into AI-based search methods and to talk about neuroevolution. He also gives us an introduction to Rust for production ML/AI and explains how…

46 MinutesPractical AI

Using Deep Learning to Predict Wildfires with Feng Yan - #329

Using Deep Learning to Predict Wildfires with Feng Yan - #329

Today we’re joined by Feng Yan, Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno to discuss ALERTWildfire, a camera-based network infrastructure that captures satellite imagery of wildfires. In our conversation, Feng details the development of the machine learning models and surrounding infrastructure. We also…

51 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Advancing Machine Learning at Capital One with Dave Castillo - #328

Advancing Machine Learning at Capital One with Dave Castillo - #328

Today we’re joined by Dave Castillo, Managing VP for ML at Capital One and head of their Center for Machine Learning. In our conversation, we explore Capital One’s transition from “lab-based” ML to enterprise-wide adoption and support of ML, surprising ML use cases, their current platform ecosystem, their design…

47 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Helping Fish Farmers Feed the World with Deep Learning w/ Bryton Shang - #327

Helping Fish Farmers Feed the World with Deep Learning w/ Bryton Shang - #327

Today we’re joined by Bryton Shang, Founder & CEO at Aquabyte, a company focused on the application of computer vision to various fish farming use cases. In our conversation, we discuss how Bryton identified the various problems associated with mass fish farming, challenges developing computer algorithms that can…

38 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure

Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure

Evan Sparks, from Determined AI, helps us understand why many are still stuck in the “dark ages” of AI infrastructure. He then discusses how we can build better systems by leveraging things like fault tolerant training and AutoML. Finally, Evan explains his optimistic outlook on AI’s economic and environmental health…

50 MinutesPractical AI

Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science with Ville Tuulos - #326

Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science with Ville Tuulos - #326

Today we kick off our re:Invent 2019 series with Ville Tuulos, Machine Learning Infrastructure Manager at Netflix. At re:Invent, Netflix announced the open-sourcing of Metaflow, their “human-centric framework for data science.” In our conversation, we discuss all things Metaflow, including features, user experience…

56 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head with Stephen Merity - #325

Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head with Stephen Merity - #325

Today we’re joined by Stephen Merity, an independent researcher focused on NLP and Deep Learning. In our conversation, we discuss Stephens latest paper, Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head, detailing his primary motivations behind the paper, the decision to use SHA-RNNs for this research, how he…

59 MinutesThe TWIML AI Podcast

Modern NLP with spaCy

Modern NLP with spaCy

SpaCy is awesome for NLP! It’s easy to use, has widespread adoption, is open source, and integrates the latest language models. Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal (core developers of spaCy and co-founders of Explosion) join us to discuss the history of the project, its capabilities, and the latest trends in NLP. We…

56 MinutesPractical AI