The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

Haytham Abuelfutuh is co-founder and CTO of Union , a startup founded by the team behind Flyte , a popular open source project originated by Lyft. Flyte is a workflow automation platform used for many different applications, but especially as an orchestrator for machine learning applications. Download the FREE Report : State of Workflow Orchestration → https://www.prefect.io/lp/gradientflow?utm_so...

This week’s guest is Hilary Mason , co-founder of Hidden Door , a startup that uses AI and machine learning to help create and power role-playing games (RPG). Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web...

Oren Razon is CEO and co-founder of Superwise , a startup that builds tools to streamline observability for machine learning models. This episode provides a comprehensive overview of tools and best practices for deploying, monitoring, and managing machine learning models in production. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?u...

Jeremiah Lowin is co-founder and CEO of Prefect , the company behind the popular open source data workflow orchestration system with the same name. We discussed the major design changes in Prefect 2.0 , their move towards treating “code as workflows”, data engineering challenges facing data and ML teams today, and implications of looming trends in machine learning and AI. Download the FREE Report...

Sebastian Raschka is lead author of a new book from Packt entitled “ Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn ”.  He is also an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and serves as the Lead AI Educator at Grid.ai.  Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify...

This week’s guests are Ade Fajemisin (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Donato Maragno (PhD Student) of the University of Amsterdam. They were co-authors of a recent paper ( “Optimization with Constraint Learning: A Framework and Survey” ) that explores how machine learning can be used to learn constraints in optimization problems.  Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI →...

This week’s guests are Barret Zoph and Liam Fedus , research scientists at Google Brain. Our conversation centered around Large Language Models (LLM), specifically recent work by Barret, Liam, and their collaborators on efficient scaling of large language models. Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • S...

Olivia Liao is Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix, a company that uses data science and expert stylists to deliver personalization at scale. We discuss how they blend data science and domain expertise, how they tune recommendations in light of logistics and supply chain constraints, and how they incorporate new developments in large language models, multimodal  models and Responsible AI...

Jack Clark is co-director of the AI Index Steering Committee. In this episode we discuss key findings of the fifth edition of the AI Index . The report uses multiple metrics (benchmarks, publications, patents, legislation, etc.) to track progress in AI (mainly deep learning) in key areas that include computer vision, speech recognition, and language models.  Download the FREE Report : Trends in Da...

This week’s guests are Ajay Kulkarni (CEO) and Mike Freedman (CTO), co-founders of Timescale , the startup behind the popular relational database for time-series and analytics. Mike is also a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Our conversation took place a few weeks after Timescale raised a massive funding round and achieved unicorn status.  Download the FREE Report : 2022 Data...

This week’s guest is Wendy Foster , Director of Engineering & Data Science at Shopify . We discussed applications of data science within Shopify, how they organize their data teams, the lifecycle of a data science project within the company, and how they approach emerging challenges like Responsible AI, large language models, and multimodal models. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Ma...

This week’s guests are Elham Tabassi of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Andrew Burt , Managing Partner of BNH.ai , the first law firm focused on AI compliance, risk mitigation, and related topics. We discuss the new NIST framework – “AI Risk Management Framework” – intended for voluntary use to manage risks in the design, development and use of AI products and systems...

This week’s guests are Amit Sharma (Principal Researcher) and Emre Kiciman (Senior Principal Researcher) of Microsoft Research. We talk about practical applications of causal inference, a set of tools and techniques that enable data teams to draw causal conclusions based on data.  Amit and Emre are part of the team behind DoWhy , a new open source library for estimating causal effects based on his...

Leo Meyerovich is founder and CEO of Graphistry , a startup building tools to democratize visual graph intelligence and graph machine learning. Leo and I recently wrote a well-received post ( “What Is Graph Intelligence?” ) making the case for why companies need to revisit graph analytics and graph intelligence. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradient...

This week’s guests are Dia Trambitas-Miron (Head of Product) and David Talby (CTO) of John Snow Labs , the startup behind the popular open source project, Spark NLP . The company also has a suite of products including an NLP platform targeted specifically for the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotech sectors . Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow....

Simon Crosby is CTO of Swim.ai , a startup building tools (based on the Swim open source project ) for next-generation data and AI applications. Swim is one of several projects (along with Ray and Akka ) contributing to interest in the Actor Model for building large-scale machine learning and data applications and infrastructure.  Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI...

Nicholas Boucher is a PhD at Cambridge University where his focus is on security including on topics like homomorphic encryption, voting systems, and adversarial machine learning. He is the lead author of a fascinating new paper – “Bad Characters: Imperceptible NLP Attacks” – which provides a taxonomy of attacks against text-based NLP models, that are  based on Unicode and other encoding systems....

This week’s guest is Anjali Samani , Director of Data Science and Data Intelligence at SalesForce. We first met during the early days of Faculty , one of the leading data science and AI startups in Europe. Anjali helped design and lead the early Fellowship programs at Faculty (these are intensive bootcamps that turn STEM PhDs and turn them into industrial data scientists). Download the FREE Report...

Savin Goyal is CTO and co-founder of Outerbounds , a startup building infrastructure to help teams streamline how they build machine learning applications. Prior to starting Outerbounds, Savin and team worked at Netflix, where they were instrumental in the creation and release of Metaflow , an open source Python framework that addresses some of the challenges data scientists face around scalabilit...

Moshe Wasserblat is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, where he serves as a Research Manager focused on NLP and Deep Learning. Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Subscribe to The Grad...

Gaurav Chakravorty , is a Senior Manager at  Discord , where he leads the team responsible for machine learning models in the area of search and notification. Prior to discord Gaurav was a manager at Google where he led the team responsible for personalized podcast recommendations. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_s...

This week's guest is Mike Tung, founder and CEO of Diffbot , a startup that crawls the web and offers one of the most comprehensive knowledge graphs accessible through a variety of simple interfaces. Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site . Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodca...

In this episode of the Data Exchange , our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and my podcast co-organizer Mikio Braun . This conversation took place as we were assembling our list of trends for 2022. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcast Subscrib...

This episode features conversations with two experts who have helped train and release models that can recognize, predict, and generate human language on the basis of very large text-based data sets. First is an excerpt of my conversation with Connor Leahy , AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha GmbH, and founding member of EleutherAI , (pronounced “ee-luther”) a collective of researchers and engineers bui...

Azeem Ahmed , is Director of Engineering at Shopify, where he leads the team that builds the primitives and the API’s used by all data scientists, machine learning engineers, and members of Shopify's engineering team. Our conversation focused on the evolution and design of data and machine learning platforms within Shopify. Azeem and I also discussed broader trends, including the rise of mode...