Best Brian Ray, Don Sheu Podcasts (2024)

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Fernando Perez: Our Most Awarded Guest to Date 44:00

3+ y ago44:00

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Brian 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 dog…

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[2/2] Built from Open Source Software: Coiled Team Visits 26.1 AI Podcast 26:58

3+ y ago26:58

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[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 sca…

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[1/2] Built from Open Source Software: Coiled Team Visits 26.1 AI Podcast 26:21

3+ y ago26:21

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[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 sca…

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Tileli Amimeur of Just - Evotec Biologics -- A fascinating career journey 28:43

3+ y ago28:43

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Tileli 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 import…

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Tips on AI Procurement Relevant for Buyers and Founders 31:03

3+ y ago31:03

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Our 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 differ…

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Dr. Kingsley Ndoh, UW Faculty of Global Health and a Founder of Regista Health 30:04

3+ y ago30:04

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Our 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…

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Michel Lopez founder and CEO of e2f shares with listeners the challenges of collecting voice data 28:25

3+ y ago28:25

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Our 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 mult…

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Creator of #NeverAgainTech Shreya Nallapati Joins 26.1 AI Podcast 28:43

3+ y ago28:43

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Our 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, w…

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Ian Bicking: Open Source Guru and author to Mozilla Voice 27:07

3+ y ago27:07

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Our 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 emotiona…

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David Law of Maven Wave Shares a New Open Source Project for EDA 27:20

3+ y ago27:20

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Our 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 …

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Dr. David Beck the Director of Research and Education at eScience Institute University of Washington 28:23

4y ago28:23

28:23

During 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 …

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New Stars of Analytics, Current Stanford Student and Facebook Intern Divya Nagaraj 26:49

4y ago26:49

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Our 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 …

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26.1 AI Podcast international tour visits with Rakuten Ventures's Saemin Ahn 27:57

4y ago27:57

27:57

International 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 …

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Ernesto Rodriguez di Paolo, 26.1 AI Podcast International Tour Continues 28:47

4y ago28:47

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Brian 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 succes…

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Alex Vayner joins us to discuss if companies should buy vs. build AI capabilities 29:56

4y ago29:56

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In 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 a…

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Chris Loy a founder and CTO of London Artificial Intelligence startup Datasine 24:00

4y ago24:00

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Our 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 appeal…

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JOGL Founder Leo Blondel: 26.1 AI Podcast International Edition France 25:01

4y ago25:01

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Brian 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 op…

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26.1 AI Podcast's 31st Episode with Phaze Ventures's Masoud Al - Rawahi 25:08

4y ago25:08

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Our 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 th…

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Dr. Beverly Wright on building Industry and Academia partnerships in Data Science 26:22

4y ago26:22

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Dr. 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, analy…

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Don Miner: from early adoption to recently being acquired by Atos 27:34

4y ago27:34

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Don 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.…

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Gert De Geyter: AI in Astrophysics applied to business 26:13

4y ago26:13

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Gert 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 b…

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COVID-19 Cure and Artificial Intelligence: Andrew Satz CEO of EVQLV 27:22

4y ago27:22

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Traditional 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 vi…

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Brett Averso: CTO at EVQLV solving CORONA with AI 26:23

4y ago26:23

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The 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…

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Check-in with our listeners in time of COVID-19 9:34

4y ago9:34

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Hi 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 hel…

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Bryan Hale of Allen Institute for AI Incubator shares outlook on AI startups 25:54

4+ y ago25:54

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Bryan 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.By Brian Ray; Don Sheu

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Travis Oliphant -- the Pythonista who made Python relevant for science 34:34

4+ y ago34:34

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Revisit 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 …

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Scott Draeger on delivering AI 28:20

4+ y ago28:20

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Scott 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.By Brian Ray; Don Sheu

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Brian and Don recap episodes 11 through 20 31:08

4+ y ago31:08

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Brian 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.…

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Dominique Davis : into the experience of Data Scientists 28:13

4+ y ago28:13

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During 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…

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Denny Lee of Databricks Joins Us 26:46

4+ y ago26:46

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Our 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.By Brian Ray; Don Sheu

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Metis Data Science Bootcamp President & Founder, Jason Moss 26:32

4+ y ago26:32

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"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 quickl…

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Alex Poon AI automation from email to cures 26:01

4+ y ago26:01

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This 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 …

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Peter Wang (part 2/2): CEO/founder Anaconda, Creator of PyData 24:08

4+ y ago24:08

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Second 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, th…

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Peter Wang (part 1/2): CEO/founder Anaconda, Creator of PyData 26:14

4+ y ago26:14

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In 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. Du…

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Jennifer Shin's life journey traversing business, data science and math 26:13

4+ y ago26:13

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For 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 s…

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Kripa Rajshekhar: 3rd Wave AI, Human in the loop, and a precautionary tale 26:56

4+ y ago26:56

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Kripa 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" equiva…

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Michael Agustin: Futurist and Founder of a Camera as AI Retail Channel Startup 26:31

4+ y ago26:31

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We 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…

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AI Product Leader Jim Ni Shares Use Cases in Fintech 26:05

4+ y ago26:05

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This 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.…

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Don and Brian recap first 9 Episodes 26:25

4+ y ago26:25

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Don 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.By Brian Ray; Don Sheu

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Data Science When $1000 Mobile Phones Delivered 26 Minutes Battery Life 26:28

4+ y ago26:28

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For 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 tool…

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Rajiv Shah: Data Robot Data Scientists 25:24

4+ y ago25:24

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Our 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 reproducibi…

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Dr. Rachael Tatman: Data Scientist at Kaggle, Computational Sociolinguistics 27:03

4+ y ago27:03

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This 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.…

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Kenny Daniel / Algorithmia Founder 26:16

4+ y ago26:16

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This 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 …

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Interview with Mark Hoffman: NASA JPL Data Scientist 25:43

4+ y ago25:43

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This 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 fa…

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Interview with Everett Carney: Blockchain Generative Games Pioneer 27:16

5y ago27:16

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In 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.…

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Interview with Ramkumar Hariharan 26:35

5y ago26:35

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Meet 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, a…

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Interview with Avilay Parekh 27:22

5y ago27:22

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Avilay 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.…

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Interview with Todd Terrazas 24:39

5y ago24:39

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Terrazas 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.By Brian Ray; Don Sheu

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