The Variational Book // MLOps Podcast #253 with Yuri Plotkin, an ML Scientist.

// Abstract

Curiosity has been the underlying thread in Yuri's life and interests. With the explosion of Generative AI, Yuri was fascinated by the topic and decided he needed to learn more. Yuri pursued learning by reading, deriving, and understanding seminal papers within the last generation. The endeavors culminated in the writing of a book on the topic, The Variational Book, which Yuri expects to release shortly in the coming months. A bit of detail about the topics he covers can be found here: www.thevariationalbook.com.

// Bio

Evolved from biomedical engineer to wet-lab scientist, and more recently transitioned Yuri's career to computer science with the last 10+ years developing projects at the intersection of medicine, life sciences and machine learning.

Yuri's educational background is in Biomedical Engineering, at Columbia University (M.S.) and University of California, San Diego (B.S.). Current interests include generative AI, diffusion models, and LLMs.

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