Description

Check out the latest episode of Inference Time Tactics. Our guest is Pawan Deshpande, founder, product leader, and angel investor in companies like Anthropic and Toast, with roles at Google, Scale AI and Domino Data Lab. 

Hosts Rob May & Calvin Cooper sit down with Pawan to cover:

• Early MIT NLP research applied to today’s inference-time tradeoffs
• How to evaluate enterprise agents in practice
• Training data plus inference filtering in real deployments
• Open source adoption realities in the enterprise
• Where durable value lives in the stack

Connect with Pawan Deshpande

Website: https://pawandeshpande.com/

Academic / Research Works & Thesis
Decoding Algorithms for Complex Natural Language Tasks (MIT thesis, 2007)
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems

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Hosts:

Rob May

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Calvin Cooper

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