Lukas Biewald: Crowdsourcing at CrowdFlower and ML Tooling at Weights & Biases
Episode description
In episode 33 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Lukas Biewald.
Lukas Biewald is a co-founder of Weights and Biases, a company that creates developer tools for machine learning. Prior to that he was a co-founder and CEO of Figure Eight Inc. (formerly CrowdFlower) — an Internet company that collects training data for machine learning, which was sold for 300 million dollars.
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Outline:
* (00:00) Intro
* (01:18) Start in AI
* (06:17) CrowdFlower / Crowdsourcing
* (21:06) Discovering Deep Learning
* (25:10) Learning Deep Learning
* (32:50) Weights and Biases
* (37:30) State of Tooling for ML
* (41:20) Exciting AI Trends
* (44:42) Interests outside of AI
* (45:40) Outro
Links:
* Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later
* Confession of a so-called AI expert
* What I learned from looking at 200 machine learning tools
* CS 329S: Machine Learning Systems Design
* Designing Machine Learning Systems
Opportunity at Weights & Biases:
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