The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

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, tooling, supported libraries, and much more. If you’re interested in checking out a Metaflow democast with Villa, reach out at twimlai.com/contact!

13 Des 201956min

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 built and trained the model, his approach to benchmarking, and finally his goals for the research in the broader research community.

12 Des 201959min

In this TWIML Democast, we're joined by SigOpt Co-Founder and CEO Scott Clark. Scott details the SigOpt platform, and gives us a live demo! This episode is best consumed by watching the corresponding video demo, which you can find at twimlai.com/talk/324.

9 Des 201946min

Today we’re joined by Erez Barak, Partner Group Manager of Azure ML at Microsoft. In our conversation, Erez gives us a full breakdown of his AutoML philosophy, and his take on the AutoML space, its role, and its importance. We also discuss the application of AutoML as a contributor to the end-to-end data science process, which Erez breaks down into 3 key areas; Featurization, Learner/Model Selection, and Tuning/Optimizing Hyperparameters. We also discuss post-deployment AutoML use cases, and much more!

6 Des 201942min

Today we continue our Azure ML at Microsoft Ignite series joined by Sarah Bird, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. At Ignite, Microsoft released new tools focused on responsible machine learning, which fall under the umbrella of the Azure ML 'Machine Learning Interpretability Toolkit.’ In our conversation, Sarah walks us this toolkit, detailing use cases and the user experience. We also discuss her work in differential privacy, and in the broader ML community, in particular, the MLSys conference.

4 Des 201938min

Today we’re joined by Jordan Edwards, Principal Program Manager for MLOps on Azure ML at Microsoft. In our conversation, Jordan details how Azure ML accelerates model lifecycle management with MLOps, which enables data scientists to collaborate with IT teams to increase the pace of model development and deployment. We discuss various problems associated with generalizing ML at scale at Microsoft, what exactly MLOps is, the “four phases” along the journey of customer implementation of MLOps, and much m

2 Des 201939min

Today we’re joined by Luke Marsden, Founder and CEO of Dotscience. Luke walks us through the Dotscience platform and their manifesto on DevOps for ML. Thanks to Luke and Dotscience for their sponsorship of this Democast and their continued support of TWIML.   Head to https://twimlai.com/democast/dotscience to watch the full democast!

26 Nov 201946min

Today we’re joined by Mike Tung, Founder, and CEO of Diffbot. In our conversation, we discuss Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph, including how it differs from more mainstream use cases like Google Search and MSFT Bing. We also discuss the developer experience with the knowledge graph and other tools, like Extraction API and Crawlbot, challenges like knowledge fusion, balancing being a research company that is also commercially viable, and how they approach their role in the research community.

21 Nov 201944min