Assessing Data Quality at Shopify with Wendy Foster - #592

My guest this time is Xavier Amatriain. Xavier is a former researcher who went on to lead the machine learning recommendations team at Netflix, and is now the vice president of engineering at Quora, the Q&A site. We spend quite a bit of time digging into each of these experiences in the interview. Here are just a few of the things we cover in our discussion: Why Netflix invested $1 million in the Netflix Prize, but didn’t use the winning solution; What goes into engineering practical machine learning systems; The problem Xavier has with the deep learning hype; And, what the heck is a multi-arm bandit and how can it help us. The notes for this show can be found at https://twimlai.com/talk/3.

28 Aug 201656min

Siraj Raval is a machine learning hacker and teacher whose machine learning for hackers and fresh machine learning youtube series are fun, informative, high energy and practical ways to learn about a ton of machine learning and AI topics. I had a chance to catch up with Siraj in San Francisco recently, and we had a great discussion. Siraj has great advice on how to learn machine learning and build confidence as a machine learning developer, how to research and formulate projects, who to follow on Machine Learning twitter, and much more. The notes for this show can be found at https://twimlai.com/talk/2

21 Aug 201640min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week we discuss Intel’s latest deep learning acquisition, AI in the Olympics, and how you can win a free ticket to the O’Reilly AI Conference in New York City. Plus a bunch more on This Week in Machine Learning & AI. The notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/13.

15 Aug 201623min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week we look at Apple’s acquisition of machine learning startup Turi, DARPA’s autonomous hacker-bot challenge, and Comma.ai’s autonomous driving dataset. Plus, of course, tons more. Show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/12.

6 Aug 201624min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. We try something new this week with an interview of Clare Corthell, Founding Partner of Luminant Data, recorded live at the Wrangle Conference. We cover her background and what she’s been up to lately, the Open Source Data Science Masters project that she created, getting beyond the beginner’s plateau in machine learning and data science, hybrid AI, the top 3 lessons from her time as a consulting data scientist, and, a recurring topic both here on This Week in Machine Learning and AI and also at the conference: Algorithmic Ethics. The notes for this show can be found at https://twimlai.com/11.

31 Jul 201647min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week covers Google’s use of ML to cut data center power consumption, NVIDIA new ‘crazy, reckless’ GPU, and a new Layer Normalization technique that promises to reduce the training time for deep neural networks. Plus, a bunch more. Show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/10.

24 Jul 201625min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week's show features a conversation about public datasets, an AI-powered Pokémon Go Wingman, a new deep learning app for your iPhone, Google research into Wide & Deep learning models, plus a whole lot more. Show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/9.

17 Jul 201630min

This Week in Machine Learning & AI brings you the week’s most interesting and important stories from the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This week's show covers the White House’s AI Now workshop, tuning your AI BS meter, research on predatory robots, an AI that writes Python code, plus acquisitions, financing, technology updates and a bunch more. Show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/8.

10 Jul 201629min