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Network Automation Nerds Podcast#012: Python Community Building with Don Sheu and Brian RayPython has one of the most open, inclusive, diverse, and welcoming communities you can find. In this episode, we will be talking to two of the top community organizers, Don Sheu and Brian Ray. Don was the co-founder of Pudget Sound Programming Python (PuPPY) and PyCascade (Regional Python conference in the Pacific Northwest) and Entrepreneur. Brian was founder of ChiPy (Chicago Python User Group) and business leader. In this episode, Brian and Don discuss their philosophy in leadership, growth, technology, and bootstrapping user groups. They shared interesting stories about not their success but also the process and...
2022-03-0248 minNetwork Automation Nerds Podcast#012: Python Community Building with Don Sheu and Brian RayPython has one of the most open, inclusive, diverse, and welcoming communities you can find. In this episode, we will be talking to two of the top community organizers, Don Sheu and Brian Ray. Don was the co-founder of Pudget Sound Programming Python (PuPPY) and PyCascade (Regional Python conference in the Pacific Northwest) and Entrepreneur. Brian was founder of ChiPy (Chicago Python User Group) and business leader. In this episode, Brian and Don discuss their philosophy in leadership, growth, technology, and bootstrapping user groups. They shared interesting stories about not their success but also the process and...
2022-03-0248 min
26.1 AI PodcastFernando Perez: Our Most Awarded Guest to DateBrian and Don welcome a much anticipated guest for this episode, Professor Fernando Perez joins us for an episode of 26.1 AI Podcast. Dr. Perez speaks about his journey, the community, and all the challenges along the way. Fernando shares in his inimitable style, how he journeyed from straight laced physicist in pursuit of an academic career to doggedly ignoring naysayers and creating one of the most important components of the modern PyData stack. One personal challenge during this journey was losing a friend Dr. John Hunter. John also influenced your host Brian Ray. Though John missed collaborating when Fernando set...
2020-12-1544 min26.1 AI Podcast[2/2] Built from Open Source Software: Coiled Team Visits 26.1 AI Podcast[Part 2 of 2] Listeners join in for a wonderful conversation in this episode. Our guests Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson are extending access to powerful distributed computing for more data users with their startup Coiled (https://coiled.io/). Data scientists with a two minute download of Coiled’s software (https://cloud.coiled.io/) can scale their work to the cloud. We discuss during the episode how conversations with the open source community resembles early customer conversations commonly used by entrepreneurs in a lean startup framework. Dask’s creator and Coiled founder Matthew described his software design approa...
2020-12-1226 min26.1 AI Podcast[1/2] Built from Open Source Software: Coiled Team Visits 26.1 AI Podcast[Part 1 of 2]
Listeners join in for a wonderful conversation in this episode. Our guests Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson are extending access to powerful distributed computing for more data users with their startup Coiled (https://coiled.io/). Data scientists with a two minute download of Coiled’s software (https://cloud.coiled.io/) can scale their work to the cloud.
We discuss during the episode how conversations with the open source community resembles early customer conversations commonly used by entrepreneurs in a lean startup framework. Dask’s creator and Coiled founder Matthew described his software design approach that has a decided mini...
2020-12-0126 min26.1 AI PodcastTileli Amimeur of Just - Evotec Biologics -- A fascinating career journeyTileli Amimeur changed direction from a fast track traditional software career based on intriguing invitation to apply coding to biology. This shift followed study in undergrad and grad schools at University of Texas, and a string of jobs with top notch traditional technology companies. Now Tileli is happily applying computation in search of important cures with an interdisciplinary team of AI experts, biologists, and chemical engineers. A must listen no matter your day job. Listen for an understanding of how AI is touching every point of human experience, including coding proteins for cures.
2020-11-2428 min26.1 AI PodcastTips on AI Procurement Relevant for Buyers and FoundersOur prior guest e2f CEO Michel Lopez introduced this week's guest. Intento founder Konstantin Savenkov walks us through a tutorial on how to buy and sell AI. A dense episode worth a listen both for anyone considering buying AI for an enterprise, and founders seeking to sell an AI product to buyers. Intento serves companies making sense of 32 different possible translation vendors. Intento identified the complexity presented to buyers by such a large population of possible vendors as a good market opportunity for building a company. For startups seeking to find product market fit, Konstantin shares step by step...
2020-11-1931 min26.1 AI PodcastDr. Kingsley Ndoh, UW Faculty of Global Health and a Founder of Regista HealthOur guest Kingsley Ndoh, MD has a global health project centered in Ondo state in Nigeria, where he endeavors to collect the largest set of cancer related data on people of African descent. We discuss during the episode, before algorithmic bias, how biased decisions about data collection has fatal consequences for cancer patients of African descent. Dr. Ndoh speaks about how Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was far younger than current guidelines in the United States for early screening of colon cancer. Perhaps guidelines would change for the age to start early screening of cancer if we had the data...
2020-11-1030 min26.1 AI PodcastMichel Lopez founder and CEO of e2f shares with listeners the challenges of collecting voice dataOur guest for this episode shares with us the challenges their firm e2f faces when collecting data for training voice AI applications. Michel Lopez started early on and researched AI and taught the subject in Saudi Arabia and Thailand before the advent of cloud. Instead of practicing AI following teaching, he took a left turn into applying his multilingual skills to performing translations for technology companies. Serendipity brought Michel a new opportunity when a translation customer asked for help collecting voice data. Voice is our computational interaction for the future. Take a peek on how we're getting to this...
2020-10-2728 min26.1 AI PodcastCreator of #NeverAgainTech Shreya Nallapati Joins 26.1 AI PodcastOur guest this week Shreya Nallapati founded an organization to help prevent mass shootings. From the #NeverAgainTech website, a quote from Shreya explaining her passion for this project, "I founded this organization after hearing Emma Gonzalez's powerful speech. Growing up with Columbine, I was tired of hearing friends and family being impacted, without being able to do anything about it. So I naturally took the areas I am specialized in, artificial intelligence and data mining. Currently, over 105 teenagers, policymakers, and industry professionals are participating in this project."
Importantly, Shreya contrasts #NeverAgainTech against vendors selling tech to law enforcement. Included in...
2020-10-1328 min26.1 AI PodcastIan Bicking: Open Source Guru and author to Mozilla VoiceOur guest this week on 26.1 AI Podcast is the long time Open Source Guru Ian Bicking. If you are a Python developer and ever typed, "pip," at the command line you can thank Ian. On this episode, he speaks on voice as a computing interface and some of the etiquette of addressing our assistants. How soon will AI improve to the point of being emotionally manipulative with users? Do you want to grade essays turned in by college students, cheating with GPT-3?
2020-09-2927 min26.1 AI PodcastDavid Law of Maven Wave Shares a New Open Source Project for EDAOur host Brian Ray's staff colleague David Law joins with a special treat. David has led development of an open source project titled "data⎰describe". This Python package accelerates exploratory data analysis. David also shares how he transitioned from studying material science at Cornell to completing a masters in data science at Northwestern and practicing as a data scientist at Maven Wave. We manage to add to the episode, how AI experts feel about riding in a self driving car, right now.
2020-09-2227 min26.1 AI PodcastDr. David Beck the Director of Research and Education at eScience Institute University of WashingtonDuring the episode we discuss something Professor Beck is passionate about, getting more scholars into the data science fold. University of Washington's eScience Institute launched in 2008. Its practice has changed over the years as it examines how to extract knowledge and useful actionable information from data. An effort that started out serving engineering and science disciplines, now includes arts and humanities scholars. David helps foster the interdisciplinary sharing of knowledge to apply data approaches across many subject matters. We explore how Dr. Beck's undergraduate computer science studies set the ground for what turned out to be a search to deliver...
2020-09-0828 min26.1 AI PodcastNew Stars of Analytics, Current Stanford Student and Facebook Intern Divya NagarajOur friend Ruthe Farmer the Chief Strategy Officer of CSforALL and founder of Last Mile Fund brought to our attention amazing women of her network embarking on careers in data, analytics, ml, and artificial intelligence. First in an upcoming series, we have Divya Nagaraj join us from Houston as she completes her Facebook internship remotely during COVID-19. For the upcoming academic term, Divya will matriculate in her sophomore year at Stanford. She shares with us some of the work she's doing in a research lab at Stanford that touches on computing and medical research. Listen this week and get a...
2020-08-1926 min26.1 AI Podcast26.1 AI Podcast international tour visits with Rakuten Ventures's Saemin AhnInternational tour continues with a stop in Singapore with a Korean managing partner of a venture fund subsidiary of a Japanese ecommerce and fintech giant. Our 21st episode of our 2nd season is your most globalized episode ever. Saemin Ahn is an investor in prior guest Kenny Daniel's startup Algorithmia. For AI founders, here's a lesson on making sure your SEO is well done. Saemin contacted Kenny and his fellow founder Diego Oppenheimer through the Algorithmia website's contact form. Going seven years strong since our guest founded Rakuten Ventures, learn about the great AI companies in the portfolio. AI...
2020-07-2827 min26.1 AI PodcastErnesto Rodriguez di Paolo, 26.1 AI Podcast International Tour ContinuesBrian and Don have worked hard over many years building community for Pythonistas. Wonder how many folks in the Python community knows about Uruguay as a hotbed of Python use. Tryolabs has been slinging Python and ML for the past ten years. Besides helping nearshore customers in the U.S. solve business challenges with AI, Tryolabs spun out a successful startup, MonkeyLearn. Ernesto Rodriguez di Paolo our guest for this episode presented MonkeyLearn for a PyCon Startup Row event hosted by Grace Law and SF Python. MonkeyLearn won over an impressive judging panel to win a place at PyCon Montreal 2015...
2020-07-2128 min26.1 AI PodcastAlex Vayner joins us to discuss if companies should buy vs. build AI capabilitiesIn this episode we discuss with Alex how executives should think about the decision of buying of-the shelf software solution vs. building the solution in-house, by yourself or with a partner. The conversation includes an overview of the pros and cons of each from both financial and technical perspective. We leave the audience with some actionable advice on how to go through the decision calculus on the question that increasingly faces today’s CXO’s who are looking to take their firms through the digital transformation.
Alex Vayner is a Partner and Americas Data & AI Practice Leader for PA Consulting Grou...
2020-07-1429 min26.1 AI PodcastChris Loy a founder and CTO of London Artificial Intelligence startup DatasineOur 26.1 AI Podcast's global tour continues with a visit with Chris Loy founder of London startup Datasine. Datasine applies machine learning to help companies talk with their customers more meaningfully and at scale. From Datasine's website, "We use machine learning, psychology and cutting edge tech to understand people and the content that appeals to them, and to help our users revolutionise how they engage with their customers at massive scale."Chris shares his personal journey of starting out at Oxford as a student of general physics, moving later as part of a combined bachelors and masters program...
2020-07-0724 min26.1 AI PodcastJOGL Founder Leo Blondel: 26.1 AI Podcast International Edition FranceBrian and Don host Just One Giant Lab founder Leo Blondel. JOGL melds open source software practices with scientific research. Members can treat their research projects like software engineers commit code. Also community spin up groups for research projects like an OpenCovid19 group. From the JOGL website, "[This is] a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The OpenCovid19 program is powered by a global community of 4000+ volunteers and experts who create solutions to better prevent, detect, and treat COVID-19, and to help...
2020-06-2325 min26.1 AI Podcast26.1 AI Podcast's 31st Episode with Phaze Ventures's Masoud Al - RawahiOur 30th episode is our first international exploration visiting with Phaze Ventures's Managing Partner Masoud Al -- Rawahi. Headquartered in Muscat, Oman, Masoud and his partners are building up a tech ecosystem from scratch. They are determined to chart the path forward for an economy tethered solidly to the current carbon economy. Learn about the bits and bots opportunities for making traditional oil business cleaner. One pain point technologists are solving is a better solution for handling wastewater. Phaze Ventures and Masoud have secured a partnership with Oman's largest firm and employer, Petroleum Development Oman. Through this partnership, entrepreneurs...
2020-06-1625 min26.1 AI PodcastDr. Beverly Wright on building Industry and Academia partnerships in Data ScienceDr. Beverly Wright talks about how she stays connected to Universities and Institutes. She explains how Corporate America can connect better with schools and activate the students for purposes of gaining insight into organization's data and promoting recruiting brand awareness amongst students. Dr. Wright brings over twenty years of research, analytics, and insights experience from corporate, consulting and academia.
2020-06-0926 min26.1 AI PodcastDon Miner: from early adoption to recently being acquired by AtosDon Miner speaks candidly about his AI firm being acquired by 110k headcount Atos. He joins our host Brian Ray as a colleague. Dr. Miner was an early adopter of big data and grew into the AI space. Today, he continues to innovate yet still finds time to pay it forward, teaching his passion topics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
2020-05-2627 min26.1 AI PodcastGert De Geyter: AI in Astrophysics applied to businessGert De Geyter started his journey towards AI, modeling our galaxy as a notable astrophysics scholar. to He transitioned from academia to solving business problems using AI at Deloitte Belgium. He is now in the United State with Deloitte Consulting, based out of NYC. During this episode, Dr. De Geyter speaks about the universe of AI (pun intended by Brian Ray) and how it translates to adding business value in his practice. In this episode we cover everything from lightwaves to beer, and potatoes. Fries are Belgian!
2020-05-1226 min26.1 AI PodcastCOVID-19 Cure and Artificial Intelligence: Andrew Satz CEO of EVQLVTraditional wet lab approaches to find a cure for COVID-19 could take decades. Using artificial intelligence, Andrew Satz and Brett Averso are saving ImmunoPrecise Antibodies years on years and millions of dollars in an attempt to find a novel coronavirus antibody. Where Brett concentrated on the technology for our listeners, Andrew adds his CEO view on the problem they're tackling. We publish another ad-hoc COVID-19 episode for our audience, as we all work towards solutions to this pandemic. Anybody working on COVID-19 tracking and cures, please let us know. We'd love to have you on an...
2020-04-1427 min26.1 AI PodcastBrett Averso: CTO at EVQLV solving CORONA with AIThe name "EVQLV" looks itself like a amino acid sequence. Digging deeper, Don and Brian share with our listeners this fast-paced startup leading the race to find a treatment for COVID-19. Brett Averso, CTO, talks about how EVQLV with a small team of Data Scientists use Machine Learning in the cloud to run simulations that would have taken months to years in just days. Novel AI; for a novel treatment; for a novel pandemic. Keep safe, keep a distance.
2020-04-0326 min26.1 AI PodcastCheck-in with our listeners in time of COVID-19Hi folks, we just wanted to check-in with everybody. Our normal publishing time is 2am, Tuesday. Last week we missed publishing an episode, because we wanted to take a moment to ponder how best to serve you during this pandemic. If you're working on data science, analytics, ML, and AI related to COVID-19, we'd love to invite you join us and get help from our audience. As we seek guests who can help you understand where we're headed, we'll publish on an ad-hoc basis. Here's to all of you staying safe! Act in a predictive way.
2020-03-3109 min26.1 AI PodcastBryan Hale of Allen Institute for AI Incubator shares outlook on AI startupsBryan Hale, managing director of AI2's incubator, shares what his org is doing to support AI entrepreneurs. We discuss favorable outcomes from Seattle's AI startup ecosystem like Turi and Xnor.ai. Bryan also includes actionable advice for new founders of AI startups.
2020-03-1725 min26.1 AI PodcastTravis Oliphant -- the Pythonista who made Python relevant for scienceRevisit the early days of Travis Oliphant's contributions to scientific Python and by extension Python's relevance to AI. Catch-up on the high energy, current efforts of the creator of NumPy, SciPy, Numba, and Conda. Travis also founded the NumFOCUS Foundation. NumFOCUS is backing Jupyter and Pandas.
In this Episode, we break our 26.1 Minutes rule for a really great and important chat with this legend of Data Science. Enjoy an extra few minutes.
2020-03-1034 min26.1 AI PodcastScott Draeger on delivering AIScott helps customers apply AI, NLP, and ML to reduce their technical debt. He comes from the front lines document management industry for over 20 years and provides a unique perspective into the usefulness of AI.
2020-03-0328 min26.1 AI PodcastBrian and Don recap episodes 11 through 20Brian and Don recap the most recent ten episodes of 26.1 AI Podcast. For new listeners or anybody catching up on missed episodes, this edition provides a nice index to plan your listening. For those new to AI and looking to catch up to the wave of interest engulfing business leaders, great episode to learn keywords important for your study.
2020-02-2531 min26.1 AI PodcastDominique Davis : into the experience of Data ScientistsDuring this Episode we speak with Dominique about how she repurposed her academic research in the areas of neuroscience, music cognition, psycholinguistics, and multisensory perception for her current work in data science. She speaks about her progression from tools like Matlab to open source Python-based tools. We explore the value of diversity in the workspace.
2020-02-1828 min26.1 AI PodcastDenny Lee of Databricks Joins UsOur 19th episode's guest Denny Lee joins us to share some of the developments at Databricks. Also, he shares a persuasive argument that traditional data professionals like DBAs have a future in ML and AI.
2020-02-1126 min26.1 AI PodcastMetis Data Science Bootcamp President & Founder, Jason Moss"If you follow your passion and marry it with Data Science, it can really take you to great places," says Jason Moss. In 2013, Jason launched Metis a data science bootcamp (now a part of Kaplan). Starting in Boston as Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, Metis pivoted quickly into a Data Science Bootcamp six months later. Jason offers his opinions on the quickly changing job market tagged broadly as "Data Science." He speaks about the personal journeys of his motivated students who wish to take it to the next level. Our guest shares how curiosity drives students to do what they love...
2020-02-0426 min26.1 AI PodcastAlex Poon AI automation from email to curesThis episode introduces our audience to perhaps one of the rarest AI practitioners, an AI serial entrepreneur. Alex Poon with his first AI startup x.ai, helped users recapture lost time spent scheduling meetings. X.ai also rehabilitated the term AI after a long winter for the discipline. Today’s visit with Alex, we revisit early days when he built x.ai and had to custom craft many tools available as readily accessible open source projects today. Our guest provides a comparison on building an AI startup a short five years ago and what's it take today. We discuss the hi...
2020-01-2226 min26.1 AI PodcastPeter Wang (part 2/2): CEO/founder Anaconda, Creator of PyDataSecond part of our 2 part series with Anaconda founder and CEO, Peter Wang, we get to the core reason why this podcast exists. We want everybody more literate about the tech wave that promises to fundamentally change how we live. In this session, Peter reminds us how in the atomic age, people wanted nuclear underwear. With nuclear power, though, the possible devastation is palpable for a casual observer. Do average users of AI understand that irresponsibly deployed AI can harm people, societies, and the world around us? One tableau Peter draws to illustrate how folks may underestimate the destructive power...
2019-12-3124 min26.1 AI PodcastPeter Wang (part 1/2): CEO/founder Anaconda, Creator of PyDataIn the Python world and in the scientific Python world especially, Peter needs no introduction. Anaconda's CEO shared with us, "Anaconda has more users than World of Warcraft, Matlab, SAS, Tableau, and Dropbox Combined." We had so much fun, our conversation ran long, long enough for 26.1 AI Podcast's first serial two part interview with a guest. During our conversation, Peter gets philosophical. As a technologist and a practitioner he discusses the hype v. reality. Our guest posits there is an, "honest path," how Peter believes technology can be leveraged for human good.
A big takeaway from this episode is that...
2019-12-1026 min26.1 AI PodcastJennifer Shin's life journey traversing business, data science and mathFor those listening and seeking information about how to launch a career in data and AI, we go deeper than any prior episode into an investigation of how folks become professionals in the space. We interview in this episode Jennifer Shin, an AI practitioner fluent in business. We touch on what launched Jennifer on her path to data and evidence. A search for answers added skills and experience in coding and analytics in our guest's toolbox. in addition to practicing AI, she's forging future leaders in the field through her teaching at NYU.
2019-12-0326 min26.1 AI PodcastKripa Rajshekhar: 3rd Wave AI, Human in the loop, and a precautionary taleKripa Rajshekhar joins us this week with a discussion on human centric AI. Kripa is committed to updating his knowledge on the latest in AI. He is the founder of Metonymize, a team committed to Third Wave Artificial Intelligence. They have a big win applying this AI to law. In the Summer of 2017, a Metonymize algorithm passed a "Turing Test" equivalent for patent law. The Metonymize team has a combined 100+ years of experience on the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence. They build solutions with economics that are 10-100X better than "Big Data" reliant Machine Learning.
2019-11-1926 min26.1 AI PodcastMichael Agustin: Futurist and Founder of a Camera as AI Retail Channel StartupWe welcome Michael Agustin for this week’s episode. He previously founded Game Salad, a startup that allowed anyone to develop video games using a visual programming interface. For Game Salad, Michael raised $25m in capital, and investors included impressive organizations like Disney. Currently, Michael is advancing optical AI, with current startup Curie. Recently he finished with the latest batch of 500 Startups, Curie offers retailers, mobile users’ cameras as a new channel. Might sound strange, but today I believe you’ll listen to our first guest who’s truly predictive...
2019-11-1226 min26.1 AI PodcastAI Product Leader Jim Ni Shares Use Cases in FintechThis week we host Jim Ni for a discussion that business leaders will love. A goal for Brian and Don is to reach non-practitioners and help them drive forward AI adoption in their orgs. Thanks to Jim's concise explanation of what he's discovering with financial services firms needs, our business audience will get a lot of out of our latest episode.
2019-11-0526 min26.1 AI PodcastDon and Brian recap first 9 EpisodesDon and Brian do a quick 26.1 recap of the previous 9 episodes and discuss some trends they are seeing driving this popular podcast. Good episode to start with if you haven't listened yet. Use this recap as an index to find episodes you want to listen to first.
2019-10-2926 min26.1 AI PodcastData Science When $1000 Mobile Phones Delivered 26 Minutes Battery LifeFor episode 9 of 26.1 AI Podcast, our guest Andrea Brice takes us back to early days of mobile telcom. She hacked together data science and algorithms reviewed by the C-suite at McCaw Cellular that became Cingular then AT&T Wireless. Making it all work on top of Oracle relational databases, Andrea shares how excited she was to find open source tools when she left telcom. Also our guest reminds of the engineering rigor present in telcom teams that we sorely need as AI and data science mature as practices. Though Andrea makes a strong case that data science was going...
2019-10-2226 min26.1 AI PodcastRajiv Shah: Data Robot Data ScientistsOur guest this week, Dr. Rajiv Shah, recently generated a lively discussion on Reddit. Subject of the debate was reproducibility of an article published in the notable science journal Nature. In this case unlike episode 7 of 26.1, where Dr. Rachael Tatman touched on her efforts to get industry AI folks to follow academia’s standards for reproducibility, Dr. Shah shared how using the same dataset as the article authors, he was unable to reproduce the results. In this case the aim of the paper's authors were to predict aftershocks of Haiti's disastrous earthquakes, a disaster the country and its...
2019-10-1525 min26.1 AI PodcastDr. Rachael Tatman: Data Scientist at Kaggle, Computational SociolinguisticsThis week’s episode may be our most cerebral to date, probably thanks to hosting our first University of Washington Husky, Ph.D. graduate. Dr. Rachael Tatman shares snippets of her experience at Kaggle, stochastic approaches to ML models, errors in ML models, understanding prediction, and importance of reproducibility.
A big takeaway references Dr. Tatman’s PyCon talk, “Put down the deep learning: When not to use neural networks and what to do instead.” We explore how many businesses benefit from a simple linear regression model instead of investing millions of dollars of compute time to a deep learning approach.
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2019-10-0827 min26.1 AI PodcastKenny Daniel / Algorithmia FounderThis week we have Algorithmia founder and CTO Kenny Daniel. Algorithmia has grown tenfold over the past six years, and the startup just completed a $25m Series B raise in May. Perhaps our densest episode to date, we manage to pack a lot into a nearly perfect 26.1 minutes.
We cover in this episode -- Algorithmia’s founding story with Kenny’s fellow founder Diego Oppenheimer, challenges bridging the culture between traditional software professionals and the current practices of AI professionals, needs for analogs for prosaic software tools tailored for AI deployment, and will the data engineer job title survive as AI m...
2019-10-0126 min26.1 AI PodcastInterview with Mark Hoffman: NASA JPL Data ScientistThis week’s guest Mark Hoffman shares how exposure to data analysis in a nuclear physics lab led to him joining years later NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a data scientist. At NASA, he’s repurposed ML work he delivered on fraud detection for one of the country’s largest healthcare orgs for NASA’s projects where spacecraft sensors deliver many false alarms.
Included in this episode is Mark’s experience launching a successful startup applying ML for black car services. This startup was successfully sold.
Some of the computing infrastructure challenges our guest solved as part of his startup foreshadow...
2019-09-2425 min26.1 AI PodcastInterview with Everett Carney: Blockchain Generative Games PioneerIn this interview we speak with Venice, CA based tech insider Everett Carney on broad range of tech topics including blockchain, GANs for players to generate custom goods within games, and compliance around AI. Along with some future thinking and optimism about AI/Blockchain, out guest sprinkled in some precautions as well.
2019-09-1727 min26.1 AI PodcastInterview with Ramkumar HariharanMeet Ramkumar Hariharan head of applied AI at macro-eyes. A startup, macro-eyes has won two Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations awards. Learn how appearing on Indian television and radio contributed importantly to Ram’s journey becoming an AI practitioner and educator. Also how Ram and team deploys AI in India, Africa, and Seattle to improve medical outcomes for access to care and effective vaccination programs.
Once again, learn about AI in an easily digested 26.1 minute session.
2019-09-1026 min26.1 AI PodcastInterview with Avilay ParekhAvilay is one of the 60 original creators of Microsoft Windows Azure platform, has done machine learning on circuit printed socks for an IoT startup, was an engineer at Amazon, and now is launching the ability to create 3D simulations of real life cities and places on the Unity platform for training AI models dependent on visual data.
2019-09-0327 min
26.1 AI PodcastInterview with Todd TerrazasTerrazas is the AI LA President @aila_community and Founder @grassy_vibe. Don and Brian ask Todd about his progression toward becoming a story teller in the AI Space, current involvement, travels, the LA AI Tech scene, and future events.
2019-08-2824 min