Vanishing Gradients
a data podcast with hugo bowne-anderson
About the show
A podcast about all things data, brought to you by data scientist Hugo Bowne-Anderson.
It's time for more critical conversations about the challenges in our industry in order to build better compasses for the solution space! To this end, this podcast will consist of long-format conversations between Hugo and other people who work broadly in the data science, machine learning, and AI spaces. We'll dive deep into all the moving parts of the data world, so if you're new to the space, you'll have an opportunity to learn from the experts. And if you've been around for a while, you'll find out what's happening in many other parts of the data world.
Episodes
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Episode 31: Rethinking Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI
July 9th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 36 mins
data science, genai, llms, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Vincent Warmerdam, a senior data professional and machine learning engineer at :probabl, the exclusive brand operator of scikit-learn. Vincent is known for challenging common assumptions and exploring innovative approaches in data science and machine learning.
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Episode 30: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 2)
June 26th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 15 mins
Hugo speaks about Lessons Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs with Eugene Yan from Amazon, Bryan Bischof from Hex, Charles Frye from Modal, Hamel Husain from Parlance Labs, and Shreya Shankar from UC Berkeley (Part 2).
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Episode 29: Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs (Part 1)
June 26th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 30 mins
Hugo speaks about Lessons Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs with Eugene Yan from Amazon, Bryan Bischof from Hex, Charles Frye from Modal, Hamel Husain from Parlance Labs, and Shreya Shankar from UC Berkeley (Part 1).
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Episode 28: Beyond Supervised Learning: The Rise of In-Context Learning with LLMs
June 10th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 5 mins
data science, genai, llms, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Alan Nichol, co-founder and CTO of Rasa, where they build software to enable developers to create enterprise-grade conversational AI and chatbot systems across industries like telcos, healthcare, fintech, and government.
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Episode 27: How to Build Terrible AI Systems
May 31st, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
data science, genai, llms, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Jason Liu, an independent consultant who uses his expertise in recommendation systems to help fast-growing startups build out their RAG applications. He was previously at Meta and Stitch Fix is also the creator of Instructor, Flight, and an ML and data science educator.
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Episode 26: Developing and Training LLMs From Scratch
May 15th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 51 mins
data science, genai, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Sebastian Raschka, a machine learning & AI researcher, programmer, and author.They’ll tell you everything you need to know about LLMs, but were too afraid to ask: from covering the entire LLM lifecycle, what type of skills you need to work with them, what type of resources and hardware, prompt engineering vs fine-tuning vs RAG, how to build an LLM from scratch, and much more.
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Episode 25: Fully Reproducible ML & AI Workflows
March 18th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 20 mins
data science, genai, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Omoju Miller, a machine learning guru and founder and CEO of Fimio, where she is building 21st century dev tooling.
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Episode 24: LLM and GenAI Accessibility
February 27th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 30 mins
data science, genai, machine learning
Hugo speaks with Johno Whitaker, a Data Scientist/AI Researcher doing R&D with answer.ai, about where we’ve come from regarding tooling and accessibility for foundation models, ML, and AI, where we are, and where we’re going.
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Episode 23: Statistical and Algorithmic Thinking in the AI Age
December 21st, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 20 mins
Hugo speaks with Allen Downey, curriculum designer at Brilliant, Professor Emeritus at Olin College, and author, about the key statistical and data skills we all need to navigate an increasingly data-driven and algorithmic world. The goal will be to dive deep into the statistical paradoxes and fallacies that get in the way of using data to make informed decisions.
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Episode 22: LLMs, OpenAI, and the Existential Crisis for Machine Learning Engineering
November 28th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 20 mins
Jeremy Howard (Fast.ai), Shreya Shankar (UC Berkeley), and Hamel Husain (Parlance Labs) join Hugo Bowne-Anderson to talk about how LLMs and OpenAI are changing the worlds of data science, machine learning, and machine learning engineering.
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Episode 21: Deploying LLMs in Production: Lessons Learned
November 14th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 8 mins
Hugo speaks with Hamel Husain (ex-Github, Airbnb), a machine learning engineer who loves building machine learning infrastructure and tools, about generative AI, large language models, the business value they can generate, and how to get started.
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Episode 20: Data Science: Past, Present, and Future
October 5th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 26 mins
Hugo speaks with Chris Wiggins (Columbia, NYTimes) and Matthew Jones (Princeton) about their recent book How Data Happened, and the Columbia course it expands upon, data: past, present, and future.
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Episode 19: Privacy and Security in Data Science and Machine Learning
August 15th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 23 mins
Hugo speaks with Katharine Jarmul about privacy and security in data science and machine learning. Katharine is a Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks Germany focusing on privacy, ethics, and security for data science workflows.
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Episode 18: Research Data Science in Biotech
May 25th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 12 mins
ai, biotech, data science, machine learning, open source, python
Machine learning, deep learning, Bayesian inference for drug discovery, OSS, and accelerating discovery science to the speed of thought!
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Episode 17: End-to-End Data Science
February 17th, 2023 | Season 1 | 1 hr 16 mins
It’s time to get real about how data science and machine learning actually deliver value! Hugo speaks with Tanya Cashorali, a data scientist and consultant that helps businesses get the most out of data, about what end-to-end data science looks like across many industries, such as retail, defense, biotech, and sports.
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Episode 16: Data Science and Decision Making Under Uncertainty
December 15th, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 23 mins
Hugo speaks with JD Long, agricultural economist, quant, and stochastic modeler, about data science, ML, and the nitty gritty of decision making under uncertainty, including how we can use our knowledge of risk, uncertainty, probabilistic thinking, causal inference, and more to help us use data science and machine learning to make better decisions in an uncertain world.