Cofounder/CEO of @wandb - tools for AI developers acquired by @coreweave
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These analyst takes on AI/ML platforms are just completely baffling. The points and companies look almost picked at random.
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I came to this ML class to give a guest lecture but I ended up learning more than teaching and I wished I had attended the entire thing - it's awesome that @josh_tobin_ is putting it online - strongly recommend checking it out course.fullstackdeeplearning…
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I recognize that I'm not the target demographic for Gartner, but this magic quadrant report on Data Science And Machine Learning Platforms is objectively batshit crazy from any business's perspective. gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=…
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Seems like 2017 will go down as the year we realize we need to incorporate a little more uncertainty in our predictions
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We are excited to announce a new $50 Million investment led by @natfriedman (ex-Github CEO) and @danielgross (ex-YCombinator Partner), to build the best AI Tools in the world.
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I'm excited to announce @wandb $45m Series B with @insightpartners and @gkm1
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Excited to announce W&B Series C with @felicis @bondcap @insightpartners and Coatue to build out or developer-first MLOps platform.
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If you haven't looked at ML image generation for a while - this stuff is really amazing. @borisdayma built a version of @OpenAI's DALL-E model. Here he enters "Eiffel tower on the moon" and the model makes images below - you can play with it: huggingface.co/spaces/flax-c…
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Proud to be on the Forbes AI 50 list but even more proud that of the 49 other companies, 16 are customers and 20 more are using our free tier. forbes.com/lists/ai50/
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Watching the student ML demos in @chipro's Stanford CS class I'm really struck by how many tools and components every team stitched together. Seems like the next real world ML Engineer skill after cleaning data is connecting 3rd party APIs.
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When I was starting my first company I was a little offended by random outreach from tech recruiters about entry level software developer jobs. Two companies and fifteen years later, I still get the exact same outreach but now I wonder if I could pass the interview.
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Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together techcrunch.com/2019/03/10/ap…
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“Play is the equivalent of pre-training for RL agents.
Kids don't get scored, there's no reward or feedback, they just play. We can formalize this in our robots – that’s the RL equivalent of pre-training – it has to be reward free.” – @pabbeel
▶️ wandb.ai/wandb_fc/gradient-d…
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My wife thinks it's hilarious to dress up our daughter like a VC but it leads to some disturbing flashbacks as I pour my heart into trying to get her attention and she just looks at me like when will this guy get out of my office so I can go back to chewing on my shirt in peace
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Had a lot of fun interviewing @jeremyphoward on a very wide range of topics from programming languages to learning to parenting (and some ML) wandb.com/podcast/jeremy-how…
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Announcing the W&B Machine Learning Visualization IDE wandb.ai/wandb/posts/reports…
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Apple M1 vs Nvidia V100 comparison for model training - really surprised how well the M1 did wandb.ai/vanpelt/m1-benchmar…
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Great case study on scaling NLP at Robolox by @quocleix and @KipKaehler featuring @huggingface medium.com/roblox-tech-blog/…
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Just to make sure no one thinks I'm biased against Forrester, and to make double sure @wandb is never covered in these things, this Gartner almost as bonkers. Are you using MathWorks as your "Machine Learning Platform"? I seriously want to talk to you.
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Very nice colab example using XGBoost and @wandb to build an explainable/inspectable credit scoring algorithm colab.research.google.com/dr…
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It's been well over a year since I did this interview with @jeremyphoward - the thing that has really stuck with me is the idea of blocking out a huge amount of the day for learning and how the benefits of that accrues over time piped.video/watch?v=t2V2kf2g…
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If you are looking for an ML project that helps the world - here's one: help extract campaign finance data from scanned receipts wandb.ai/stacey/deepform_v1/…
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Thanks for hosting an awesome event @ClementDelangue @huggingface - have never seen this level of excitement in SF
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In 1919 DuPont built a room to display giant charts of business metrics hagley.org/librarynews/dupon…
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Machine Learning Experiment Tracking - why it's important and how to do it medium.com/@l2k/machine-lear…
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It’s not obvious from the outside which startups are credit worthy, but the investors typically know, so the investors built long term relationships with SVB.
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Excited to see @wandb partner with @NVIDIAAI
Press Release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/n…
W&B Report: wandb.ai/wandb/nvidia-bcp/re…
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I’m excited to announce our new course with @DeepLearningAI_ and @AndrewYNg on evaluating Generative AI models. Learn to train, evaluate, debug, and fine-tune an LLM alongside Andrew and the W&B team.
Register here 📷 wandb.me/DLcourse_wandb
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Great tutorial on training, versioning and visualizing NLP models in English and Danish with @spacy_io and @wandb
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Makes me proud to see the @wandb team acknowledged in Apple's just released paper on MM1. arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611
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I really enjoyed this interview with @DaphneKoller who taught my intro to ML class. The care she put into teaching and her intense focus on seeing the world clearly has always inspired me. Also her company @insitro is incredibly cool: piped.video/watch?v=prGz_6Jb…
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Don't know if it's the most popular but @wandb_gd is pretty good 🙂 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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I think the bigger question is why did the investors, after building a long term relationship with SVB essentially create a bank run where they wind up the biggest losers. And I guess it’s basic game theory, but it still blows my mind.
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I really enjoyed this interview with @rbhar90 - the creator of deepchem.io. Biology might be the most interesting application of deep learning right now and Bharath is very patient with his explanations
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Underrated topic in ML? @seanjtaylor answers: We still are bottlenecked on 'Is this model better than the one that we already had?
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Congrats on the raise @ClementDelangue and @huggingface - it's been a real pleasure working with you! techcrunch.com/2021/03/11/hu…
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Friend @chipro is such a unique and impressive person - it was fun to interview her on a wide range of topics wandb.com/podcast/chip-huyen
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Through years of work to support all the different ways that ML engineers explore their models, Weights and Biases has become a very powerful general purpose data exploration tool
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Matilda and I were looking at the awesome mathematics art installation at SFO and noticed this sculpture was made by @henryseg - love how the art includes math puzzles
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I wrote a new article about bulding a deep learning machine in my basement oreilly.com/learning/build-a… @OReillyAI
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Running CI on production ML is important but can be painful. We've been hearing about this pain since we started the company and studying the way different orgs deal with it. I'm excited that @wandb running a webinar on best practices!
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Our colleague @borisdayma made a colab with @huggingface and @wandb to train custom language models on your tweets and ran them on some of our investors - the results are pretty funny app.wandb.ai/wandb/huggingtw… @jamescham @roybahat @danielgross @peteskomoroch
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In a field like NLP or machine learning in general, the worst position to be in is to compete with the whole science and open source fields. - @ClementDelangue of @huggingface
on the power of open source
piped.video/SJx9Fsnr-9Q
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Starting a Second Machine Learning Tools Company, Ten Years Later medium.com/@l2k/starting-a-s…
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My new company announces fundraise techcrunch.com/2018/05/31/we…
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Cerebras says their new API is the fastest at LLM inference. We compared five different Llama 70B providers and we found the same results.
You can explore it here: wandb.me/cerebras-speed-eval
Or, read the full comparison here: wandb.ai/capecape/benchmark_…
For more details, I interviewed their CEO @andrewdfeldman on Gradient Dissent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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We've been iterating on W&B Tables for a long time with our users and now we're opening it up to everyone who wants a simple way to explore structured data.
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This Alberta Watch was named and designed through feedback from CrowdFlower jobs albertawatches.com
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In my tiny 4th grade class, me and 3 other kids loved math. Our teacher kindly went out and got us a special tutor. We all studied math in college and 30 yrs later three of us work in ML and were at a W&B work dinner tonight. So grateful for our teacher and our tutor!
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I am so excited for our first in person user conference!
We have lots of friends giving talks about building and using LLMs and we have a huge new product to unveil.
fullyconnected.com
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Baby steps towards solving what @petewarden called the ML reproducibility crisis wandb.com/blog/towards-repro…
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Now @huggingface and @wandb work together automatically! You can train a model and visualize performance.
Example visualization: bit.ly/visualize-hugging-fac…
Colab: bit.ly/try-hugging-face-visu…
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Real time monitoring for all of your teams LLM activity: wandb.ai/site/monitoring
Or just use our two line integration and get started on your own at weave.wandb.ai
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Also the team that used distributed selenium to scrape google street view and then train and run a camera detector on the images to build a meta-surveillance map of San Francisco should get a special prize 🙂
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Great introduction to hyperparameter sweeps by @metaphdor medium.com/@staceysvetlichna…
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I love taking my daughter to the @exploratorium so much. It calls itself a science museum but I feel like it’s curating and creating a totally new interactive art form. It’s my top recommendation for anyone visiting SF.
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Statistical analysis and data mining is the #1 skill that got people hired in 2014 according to linkedin blog.linkedin.com/2014/12/17…
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Excited to see fast.ai's new course and new library fast.ai/2020/08/21/fastai2-l…
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I enjoyed chatting with @amasad about the Future of ML.
We’re running a ML hackathon with @replit starting this Saturday, come train some models with us:
Sign up: machine-learning-hackathon.r…
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Really excited to release Weave, a set of tools that helps you track and evaluate LLMs!
wandb.ai/wandb/weave-announc…
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I first saw @savvyRL give a very impressive talk at @full_stack_dl and I was excited for the chance to interview her about her research and @ml_collective, the fascinating new organization she's building. Check it out!
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Nice guide to using @wandb for experiment tracking, hyper parameter search and more towardsdatascience.com/do-yo…
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Nice mention of @wandb in the NY Times - we don't monitor explicitly for bias because that's so domain specific but we make it easy to track and visualize the inputs and outputs of a model - a key step to enable responsible AI nytimes.com/2021/06/30/techn…
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Rare chance to see my longtime cofounder, distinguished lecturer and Conan O'Brien intern @vanpelt run a webinar on "Versioning Data and Models" #MachineLearning
Nov 19th at 8AM PST
RSVP: wandb.com/webinars?utm_sourc…
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Really fun interview with @waymo’s Head of Research, Drago. I have a ton of questions about simulation and simulated data and it was cool to hear about the state of the art from someone doing it at scale.
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“Play is the equivalent of pre-training for RL agents.” – @pabbeel on GD.
▶️Watch the full episode here: wandb.ai/wandb_fc/gradient-d…
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Uber won't let me confirm if they're a customer, but their CEO sure looks happy in a CrowdFlower jacket...
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After years of working around AVs I took my first real trip in a Waymo with my daughter and mother in law and everyone loved it! This is going to quickly become a mundane experience but today it blew our minds.
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It was a real pleasure to interview @pwang, CEO of @anacondainc who has done so much to push forward scientific computing and had thoughtful answers on topics from tactics around selling into enterprises to "Do you ever regret choosing Python?" piped.video/watch?v=ZvMYCj-B…
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My product demos are a lot like baby photos in that a visualization of a generic dataset generates polite interest while the same visualization of a user's real dataset consistently blows their mind, even for someone who looks at their data all day every day.
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We're doing a special event May 24th at 10am PT - to show off a bunch of @wandb features and workflows that you probably haven't seen before and a sneak peek a few big things coming.
Register here:
whats-new-with.wandb.ai/?utm…
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One of the reasons @wandb has been successful is @carey_phelps who has been daily talking to ML practitioners about their workflows for the past 2+ years. If you are interested in ML tools you should definitely check out her first article medium.com/swlh/machine-lear…
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The ML app demos in @chipro's CS 329S are super inspiring and happening right now - check them out: bit.ly/cs329s-demo
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It's so cool to meet all these women in Kolkata who have been doing CrowdFlower tasks for the last four years.
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Best thing about this interview series is the license to nerd out on obscure topics I'm secretly obsessed with. So fun to interview @_rockt and @HeinrichKuttler
from the @facebookai team about teaching computers to beat nethack. wandb.ai/podcast/podcast/rep…
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My wife off handedly mentioned that my habit of calling people with texting first was a charming idiosyncrasy, not exactly her words. Is this true? I was wondering why people keep texting me to ask if they can call.
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Great overview of a fascinating deep learning application and an explanation of why tracking gradients can be useful wandb.com/articles/exploring…
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Try running alphafold and visualizing the predicted molecule shape in @wandb with this simple colab by @metaphdor colab.research.google.com/gi…
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This was a fun podcast where I put my @wandb cofounders on the spot with questions like "what was your darkest moment" and "what was the most surprising customer feedback" and "what decisions do you regret"
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Interesting interview I did with @RichardSocher back when he was working at Salesforce piped.video/watch?v=xa0zQMFS…
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Our new product design intern on her first day does her first users interview and collects this feedback on the @wandb product: "It’s not just the tool, it’s cool to hear the CEO talk. It sounds like for one he’s crazy..." - I really feel seen
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I wrote another article: Why are Machine Learning Projects so Hard to Manage? medium.com/@l2k/why-are-mach…
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Really excited to make public W&B Launch - the ability to launch jobs directly from the W&B UI.
Single node access is available to everyone and we're taking signups for EKS access here: wandb.ai/site/launch-signup
More details here: wandb.ai/wandb/wb-announceme…
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My longtime cofounder @vanpelt doesn't do a lot of webinars, but when he does them, you don't want to miss it (you can also learn about W&B and ML Reproducibility): bit.ly/wb-webinar-sep24
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Unexpected and important use of deep learning to increase agricultural sustainability medium.com/pytorch/ai-for-ag…
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Our friends @HamelHusain @dk21 and @capetorch have put together a really excellent and free course on MLOps. You can check it out here: wandb.courses/courses/effect…
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Everyone knows @3blue1brown makes the best math videos (really the best videos) of all time. But I just noticed he also has the best webpage call to action. I will click on a button that says "Give an Impassioned Rant" 100 times out of 100.
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