The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

Ram Sriharsha is VP of Engineering and R&D at Pinecone, a startup that offers a fully managed vector database (not just an index). We discuss Pinecone’s new proprietary storage engine, which was first described around the time we recorded this conversation.Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Karthik Ramasamy, is the Head of Streaming at Databricks. He has extensive experience in streaming, having led teams at Twitter (Apache Heron), Splunk, and Streamlio (Apache Pulsar).Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter:  https://gradientflow.substack.com/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Piotr Żelasko is Head of Research at Meaning, a startup building an AI platform using speech technologies. He has years of experience in speech technologies, both as a researcher and as a software engineer.  We recorded this episode on the week of the release of Whisper,  deep learning model (from OpenAI) that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.  Our conversation centered on Whisper and speech recognition, but also touched on the new speech data processing tools (Lhotse, k2, Icefall) that we described in our recent post.Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Yaron Singer is the CEO of Robust Intelligence, a company building tools to help manage and mitigate risks associated with machine learning models and applications. Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Yashar Behzadi is the CEO & Founder of Synthesis AI, a startup that uses synthetic data technologies to enable teams building AI applications, as well as gaming and metaverse applications.Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Sadegh Riazi is CEO and co-founder of CipherMode Labs, a startup building tools that enable data and machine learning teams to build and deploy models directly on encrypted data. CipherMode’s new open source project enables teams to develop and deploy machine learning algorithms using familiar tools, and thus opens up the possibility of using sensitive data in different scenarios both within an organization, and in cooperation with other organizations.Download a FREE copy of our recent 2022 Trends Report (Data, Machine Learning, AI):  https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

John Bohannon is a Senior Director of Data Science and Head of Research at Primer AI, an end-to-end machine intelligence solution for textual data. We discussed their process of translating ML research into ML products, through the lens of several use cases.Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Jon Udell is community lead for Steampipe, an open-source tool that populates a database table with data retrieved from APIs. They use Postgres, which means that data is easy to explore and retrieve using SQL. Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Aadyot Bhatnagar, is a Senior Research Engineer at Salesforce, and co-creator of Merlion an open source framework for applying machine learning on time series data.  Merlion supports a wide range of time series learning tasks including forecasting, anomaly detection, and change point detection. Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Maarten Grootendorst, is a data scientist at IKNL, and more importantly, he’s the author of two open source libraries that I’ve come to love: BERTopic (topic modeling with transformers and c-TF-IDF) and PolyFuzz (fuzzy string matching). Both these projects bring the power of transformers and other leading edge models, and package them with simple APIs, clear documentation, and visualization tools.Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results:  https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.