Practical AI

By Daniel Whitenack and Chris BensonTechnology

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June 01, 2021The fastest way to build ML-powered apps
Tuhin Srivastava tells Daniel and Chris why BaseTen is the application development toolkit for data scientists. BaseTen’s goal is to make it simple to serve machine learning models, write custom business logic around them, and expose those through API endpoints without configuring any infrastructure.

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Featuring:
Tuhin Srivastava – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
BaseTen
BaseTen | LinkedIn
BaseTen | Twitter
BaseTen | Blog
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44 min
May 26, 2021Elixir meets machine learning
Today we’re sharing a special crossover episode from The Changelog podcast here on Practical AI. Recently, Daniel Whitenack joined Jerod Santo to talk with José Valim, Elixir creator, about Numerical Elixir. This is José’s newest project that’s bringing Elixir into the world of machine learning. They discuss why José chose this as his next direction, the team’s layered approach, influences and collaborators on this effort, and their awesome collaborative notebook that’s built on Phoenix LiveView.

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Featuring:
José Valim – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
Axon
Livebook
Jax
Livebook demo on YouTube
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
Books
“Genetic Algorithms in Elixir” by Sean Moriarity
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1 hr 2 min
May 18, 2021Apache TVM and OctoML
90% of AI / ML applications never make it to market, because fine tuning models for maximum performance across disparate ML software solutions and hardware backends requires a ton of manual labor and is cost-prohibitive. Luis Ceze and his team created Apache TVM at the University of Washington, then left founded OctoML to bring the project to market.

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Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
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Featuring:
Luis Ceze – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Apache TVM
OctoML
OctoML: Automated Deep Learning Engineering with Jason Knight and Luis Ceze
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50 min
May 11, 202125 years of speech technology innovation
To say that Jeff Adams is a trailblazer when it comes to speech technology is an understatement. Along with many other notable accomplishments, his team at Amazon developed the Echo, Dash, and Fire TV changing our perception of how we could interact with devices in our home. Jeff now leads Cobalt Speech and Language, and he was kind enough to join us for a discussion about human computer interaction, multimodal AI tasks, the history of language modeling, and AI for social good.

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O'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. Just open your browser and dive in. Learn more and keep your teams’ skills sharp at oreilly.com/changelog
Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
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Featuring:
Jeff Adams – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Cobalt Speech and Language
Building Blocks of Speech Technology
Article: “BYU students, creator of Alexa develop software to preserve Cambodian stories”
Previous episode with Catherine Breslin (previously with Cobalt)
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43 min
May 04, 2021Generating "hunches" using smart home data 🏠
Smart home data is complicated. There are all kinds of devices, and they are in many different combinations, geographies, configurations, etc. This complicated data situation is further exacerbated during a pandemic when time series data seems to be filled with anomalies. Evan Welbourne joins us to discuss how Amazon is synthesizing this disparate data into functionality for the next generation of smart homes. He discusses the challenges of working with smart home technology, and he describes how they developed their latest feature called “hunches.”

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Featuring:
Evan Welbourne – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Video about hunches
Amazon’s Alexa can now act on its own hunches to turn off lights and more
What Are Alexa Hunches?
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43 min
April 27, 2021Mapping the world
Ro Gupta from CARMERA teaches Daniel and Chris all about road intelligence. CARMERA maintains the maps that move the world, from HD maps for automated driving to consumer maps for human navigation.

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Featuring:
Ro Gupta – Website, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
CARMERA
The Mapping Hierarchy of Needs
Mapping Change When It Matters Most
CARMERA and Toyota Demonstrate Further Progress on Urban and Highway Mapping in Japan and the US
The Mapping Singularity Is Near
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54 min
April 20, 2021Data science for intuitive user experiences
Nhung Ho joins Daniel and Chris to discuss how data science creates insights into financial operations and economic conditions. They delve into topics ranging from predictive forecasting to aid small businesses, to learning about the economic fallout from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this!
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Featuring:
Nhung Ho – Website, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Intuit Website
Intuit Blog | Nhung Ho, Director of Data Science
Intuit Blog | How AI Can Help Build Resiliency for Small Businesses in a Global Economic Crisis
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53 min
April 13, 2021Going full bore with Graphcore!
Dave Lacey takes Daniel and Chris on a journey that connects the user interfaces that we already know - TensorFlow and PyTorch - with the layers that connect to the underlying hardware. Along the way, we learn about Poplar Graph Framework Software. If you are the type of practitioner who values ‘under the hood’ knowledge, then this is the episode for you.

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Featuring:
Dave Lacey – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Graphcore
Poplar Graph Framework Software
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45 min
April 06, 2021Next-gen voice assistants
Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!

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Featuring:
Nikola Mrkšić – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
-PolyAI
-The Science Behind PolyAI
-How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents
-PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models
-PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation
-Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market

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51 min
March 30, 2021Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Chris has the privilege of talking with Stanford Professor Margot Gerritsen, who co-leads the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Initiative. This is a conversation that everyone should listen to. Professor Gerritsen’s profound insights into how we can all help the women in our lives succeed - in data science and in life - is a ‘must listen’ episode for everyone, regardless of gender.

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O'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. Just open your browser and dive in. Learn more and keep your teams’ skills sharp at oreilly.com/changelog
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Featuring:
Margot Gerritsen – LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Initiative
WiDS Podcast
WiDS 2020 Opening Video
Books
“Mindset” by Carol S. Dweck
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57 min

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Making artificial intelligence practical, productive & accessible to everyone. Practical AI is a show in which technology professionals, business people, students, enthusiasts, and expert guests engage in lively discussions about Artificial Intelligence and related topics (Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, GANs, MLOps, AIOps, LLMs & more).