The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

Roy Schwartz is Professor of Natural Language Processing at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We discussed a recent survey paper that Roy co-wrote that presented a broad overview of existing methods to improve NLP efficiency through the lens of traditional NLP pipelines.  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitc...

On this Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the U.S., we revisit a Twitter Spaces conversation I had with Andrew Burt , Managing Partner at BNH 1, the first law firm focused on AI risks. Bob Friday , Chief AI Officer at Juniper Networks . Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detail...

Hung Bui is the CEO of VinAI , a premier Artificial Intelligence research-based company developing world-class products and services. Hung assembled the VinAI team just over three years ago and they are now among the Top 20 Global Companies in AI Research in 2022 .  Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Go...

Bob van Luijt , is CEO of SeMI Technologies , the company behind the popular vector search engine Weaviate .   Bob describes their key features and core components, popular use cases, and he also provides an overview of Weaviate’s near-term roadmap. We also discuss how vector search engines compare with existing data management systems. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradient...

Federico Garza and Max Mergenthaler Canseco are both CTOs and co-founders of Nixtla , a startup building developer-friendly software that helps data scientists deploy predictive pipelines. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • Podcast Addict • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data...

Christopher Nguyen is CEO and cofounder of Aitomatic , a startup that uses a knowledge-first approach to build and deploy machine learning solutions, with a focus on industrial applications (manufacturing and other physical settings). Join us at K1st World , a fantastic symposium and networking event slated for November 16 & 17. Use the discount code GRADIENTFLOW60 to attend in person or onlin...

Ram Sriharsha is VP of Engineering and R&D at Pinecone , a startup that offers a fully managed vector database (not just an index). We discuss Pinecone’s new proprietary storage engine, which was first described around the time we recorded this conversation. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google...

Karthik Ramasamy , is the Head of Streaming at Databricks . He has extensive experience in streaming, having led teams at Twitter (Apache Heron), Splunk, and Streamlio (Apache Pulsar). Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter :  https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange we...

Piotr Żelasko is Head of Research at Meaning , a startup building an AI platform using speech technologies. He has years of experience in speech technologies, both as a researcher and as a software engineer.  We recorded this episode on the week of the release of Whisper ,  deep learning model (from OpenAI) that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.  Our con...

Yaron Singer is the CEO of Robust Intelligence , a company building tools to help manage and mitigate risks associated with machine learning models and applications. Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can be...

Yashar Behzadi is the CEO & Founder of Synthesis AI , a startup that uses synthetic data technologies to enable teams building AI applications, as well as gaming and metaverse applications. Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS ....

Sadegh Riazi is CEO and co-founder of CipherMode Labs , a startup building tools that enable data and machine learning teams to build and deploy models directly on encrypted data. CipherMode’s new open source project enables teams to develop and deploy machine learning algorithms using familiar tools, and thus opens up the possibility of using sensitive data in different scenarios both within an o...

John Bohannon is a Senior Director of Data Science and Head of Research at Primer AI , an end-to-end machine intelligence solution for textual data. We discussed their process of translating ML research into ML products, through the lens of several use cases. Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spoti...

Jon Udell is community lead for Steampipe , an open-source tool that populates a database table with data retrieved from APIs. They use Postgres, which means that data is easy to explore and retrieve using SQL. Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site .

Aadyot Bhatnagar , is a Senior Research Engineer at Salesforce, and co-creator of Merlion an open source framework for applying machine learning on time series data.  Merlion supports a wide range of time series learning tasks including forecasting, anomaly detection, and change point detection.  Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS . Detailed show notes can...

Maarten Grootendorst , is a data scientist at IKNL , and more importantly, he’s the author of two open source libraries that I’ve come to love: BERTopic (topic modeling with transformers and c-TF-IDF) and PolyFuzz (fuzzy string matching). Both these projects bring the power of transformers and other leading edge models, and package them with simple APIs, clear documentation, and visualization tool...

Hamza Tahir and Adam Probst are co-creators of ZenML , an extensible open source framework for building reproducible pipelines. We discuss the current state of ZenML, the many use cases that ZenML has been designed for, and its near-term roadmap.  Download the FREE Report : State of Workflow Orchestration →  https://gradientflow.com/2022-workflow-orchestration-survey/?utm_source=gradientflow&a...

Dr. Omri Allouche is Head of Research at Gong , a company that uses advances in NLP and speech models to identify and highlight risks and opportunities during customer interactions. 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 o...

Danny Bickson and Amir Alush are the creators of fastdup , a very impressive free tool for surfacing duplicates, anomalies, and leakage in visual data. In line with its name, it’s fast: fastdup is written in C++ and can handle millions of images easily. Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/ Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • S...

Mark Chen is a Research Scientist at OpenAI and part of the team behind DALL·E 2 , a new AI system that can create realistic images and art based on natural language descriptions. 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...

Jules Damji is lead developer advocate, and Richard Liaw is an engineering manager at Anyscale, the startup founded by the creators of Ray , the open source project that makes it simple to scale any compute-intensive Python workload. To learn more about Ray and how to scale machine learning applications, attend the Ray Summit (San Francisco / Aug 23-24)  https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit-2022?ut...

Rick Lamers is co-Founder and CEO at Orchest , the startup behind an open source project that enables data scientists to create, manage, and execute complex end-to-end data pipelines.  Download the FREE Report : State of Workflow Orchestration →  https://gradientflow.com/2022-workflow-orchestration-survey/?utm_source=gradientflow&utm_medium=DEpodcast Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify •...

Devin Petersohn is CTO and co-founder of Ponder , and the creator of Modin ,  a fast, scalable, drop-in replacement for the popular Pandas library.  Download the FREE Report : State of Workflow Orchestration →  https://gradientflow.com/2022-workflow-orchestration-survey/?utm_source=gradientflow&utm_medium=DEpodcast Subscribe : Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RS...

Nick Schrock is founder and Elementl , the startup behind Dagster , a popular open source, data orchestration platform. We discussed recent trends in data engineering and infrastructure, and Dagster’s introduction of software-defined assets , a new approach to managing, maintaining, and orchestrating data declaratively. Download the FREE Report : State of Workflow Orchestration →  https://gradient...

Edmon Begoli , leads the AI Systems R&D section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he is also a distinguished member of the ORNL research staff.  Our conversation centered on his upcoming presentation at the Data+AI Summit , where he will describe the four principal categories of Adversarial AI and their future implications. Download the FREE Report : Trends in Data, Machine Learni...